CONTEMPORANEOUSNESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The quality of belonging to the same period of time

Synonyms:

contemporaneity; contemporaneousness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("contemporaneousness" is a kind of...):

co-occurrence; coincidence; concurrence; conjunction (the temporal property of two things happening at the same time)

Derivation:

contemporaneous (of the same period)

Meaning:

The quality of being current or of the present

Example:

a shopping mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this village

Synonyms:

contemporaneity; contemporaneousness; modernism; modernity; modernness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("contemporaneousness" is a kind of...):

currency; currentness; up-to-dateness (the property of belonging to the present time)

Attribute:

modern (belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages)

Derivation:

contemporaneous (occurring in the same period of time)