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, contemporaneousness]
    2: the quality of belonging to the same period of time [syn:
       contemporaneity, contemporaneousness]

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.
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         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.
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