adj
contemporaneous
Contemporaneous (adj) means happening or made at the same time as something else.
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Happening or made at the same time as something else.
"Look in other contemporaneous works to see whether that idea was common then."
"In contrast, Holmes has also tried to adopt a firmly contemporaneous view, to ensure the GCR is fit to face current and emerging challenges."
— Malcolm Holmes tells Paul Stephen, A mission to develop GCR's legacy (2023)
"Preceded by a Simpsons short shot in 3-D—perhaps the only thing more superfluous than a fourth Ice Age movie—Ice Age: Continental Drift finds a retinue of vaguely contemporaneous animals coping with life in the post-Pangaea age."
— Sam Adams, Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012)
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Etymology
From Latin contemporāneus, meaning ‘contemporary’, formed from con-, meaning ‘with’, tempus, meaning ‘time’, and -aneus, meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ (compare Late Latin temporāneus, meaning ‘opportune, timely’).
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What is the meaning of contemporaneous?
"contemporaneous" (adj) means happening or made at the same time as something else.
What is another word for contemporaneous?
Other words for "contemporaneous" include contemporary, coeval, coetaneous.
