1600-1700Latincontemporaneus, from com- ( ➔ COM-) + tempus ‘time’
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All life is contemporaneous, is now.
Symptoms of reversion to primitive superstition about death are contemporaneous with Romanticism.
The basin formation was associated with contemporaneous acid volcanism.
The controversy ran contemporaneous with a delicate question of authority.
These were approximately contemporaneous invasions; and the legends celebrating their victories were developed simultaneously too.
Vertical dashed lines enclose periods of contemporaneous high lake levels and elevated geothermal activity on rift volcanoes.
formal happening or done in the same period of timeSYN contemporarycontemporaneous with Built in the 13th century, the chapels are contemporaneous with many of the great Gothic cathedrals.—contemporaneously adverb—contemporaneity /kənˌtempərəˈniːəti/ noun [uncountable]