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—contemporarily, adv. —contemporariness, n./keuhn tem"peuh rer'ee/, adj., n., pl. contemporaries.adj.1. existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same time: Newton's discovery of the calculus was contemporary with that of Leibniz.2. of about the same age or date: a Georgian table with a contemporary wig stand.3. of the present time; modern: a lecture on the contemporary novel.n.4. a person belonging to the same time or period with another or others.5. a person of the same age as another.[1625-35; < LL contempor- (see CONTEMPORIZE) + -ARY]Syn. 1. coexistent, concurrent, simultaneous. CONTEMPORARY, CONTEMPORANEOUS, COEVAL, COINCIDENT all mean happening or existing at the same time. CONTEMPORARY often refers to persons or their acts or achievements: Hemingway and Fitzgerald, though contemporary, shared few values. CONTEMPORANEOUS is applied chiefly to events: the rise of industrialism, contemporaneous with the spread of steam power. COEVAL refers either to very long periods of time - an era or an eon - or to remote or long ago times: coeval stars, shining for millenia with equal brilliance; coeval with the dawning of civilization. COINCIDENT means occurring at the same time but without causal or other relationships: prohibition, coincident with the beginning of the 1920s.
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