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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
     [1913 Webster]


  
           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.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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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