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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Contemporaneous \Con*tem`po*ra"ne*ous\, a. [L. contemporaneus; con- + tempus time. See {Temporal}, and cf {Contemporaneous}.] Living, existing, or occurring at the same time; contemporary. The great age of Jewish philosophy, that of Aben Esra, Maimonides, and Kimchi had been contemporaneous with the later Spanish school of Arabic philosophy. --Milman -- {Con*tem`po*ra"ne*ous*ness}, n. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: contemporaneousness n 1: the quality of being current or of the present: "a shopping mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this village" [syn: {modernity}, {modernness}, {modernism}, {contemporaneity}] 2: the quality of belonging to the same period of time [syn: {contemporaneity}]
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