contemporaneous
adjective
living or occurring during the same period of time; contemporary.
contemporaneity
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a word derived from
contemporaneous.
Example Sentences
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Despite some design missteps, like overly high slits on apron skirts, the collection resonated with a relaxed confidence, striking a balance between luxury, contemporaneity, and French elegance.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 2023
The immediacy and sudden contemporaneity of the film make one feel the inferno of the Western Front as one never quite has before.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 8, 2019
One of the painting’s best aspects, of course, is its contemporaneity.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 2018
That sense of the hazards of contemporaneity — anomie, technological apprehension, the anxiety of travel — is one of the great mimetic feats of “Kudos.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2018
At the same time the sacrament of the Mass affirms ‘the perpetual contemporaneity of The Passion’ and celebrates the ‘marriage of time present with time past’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
