contemporaneous

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: con=tem=po=ra=ne=ous

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.

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-minute

ROGET 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.