contemporaneity

Other forms: contemporaneities

Definitions of contemporaneity
  1. noun
    the quality of being current or of the present
    synonyms: contemporaneousness, modernism, modernity, modernness
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    type of:
    currency, currentness, up-to-dateness
    the property of belonging to the present time
  2. noun
    the quality of belonging to the same period of time
    synonyms: contemporaneousness
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    type of:
    co-occurrence, coincidence, concurrence, conjunction
    the temporal property of two things happening at the same time
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