Word Study
contemporaneous
CIDE DICTIONARY
contemporaneous, a. [L. contemporaneus; con- + tempus time. See Temporal, and cf. Contemporaneous.].
Living, existing, or occurring at the same time; contemporary. [1913 Webster]
"The great age of Jewish philosophy, that of Aben Esra, Maimonides, and Kimchi, had been contemporaneous with the later Spanish school of Arabic philosophy."
OXFORD DICTIONARY
contemporaneous, adj. (usu. foll. by with)
1 existing or occurring at the same time.
2 of the same period.
1 existing or occurring at the same time.
2 of the same period.
Derivative
contemporaneity n. contemporaneously adv. contemporaneousness n.
Etymology
L contemporaneus (as com-, temporaneus f. tempus -oris time)
THESAURUS
contemporaneous
accompanying, actual, agreeing, as is, being, coetaneous, coeternal, coeval, coexistent, coexisting, coinstantaneous, collateral, concomitant, concurrent, contemporary, conterminous, coterminous, current, existent, existing, extant, fresh, immanent, immediate, instant, isochronal, isochronous, latest, modern, new, present, present-age, present-day, present-time, running, simultaneous, synchronal, synchronic, synchronous, that be, that is, topical, unison, unisonous, up-to-date, up-to-the-minuteROGET THESAURUS
contemporaneous
Synchronism
N synchronism, coexistence, coincidence, simultaneousness, simultaneity, concurrence, concomitance, unity of time, interim, isochronism, contemporary, coetanian, synchronous, synchronal, synchronic, synchronical, synchronistical, simultaneous, coexisting, coincident, concomitant, concurrent, coeval, coevous, contemporary, contemporaneous, coetaneous, coeternal, isochronous, at the same time, simultaneously, together, in concert, during the same time, in the same breath, pari passu, in the interim, as one, at the very moment, just as, as soon as, meanwhile.For further exploring for "contemporaneous" in Webster Dictionary Online
