Contemporality
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /kənˌtɛmpəˈɹælɪtɪ/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Contemporality is a noun meaning The quality of being contemporary; contemporaneousness.
Meaning
The quality of being contemporary; contemporaneousness.
Example Sentences
They exist and are contemporaneous. Contemporality does not mean, however, that they occupy the same geo-physical moment of time on the globe.
When accepted, it was interpreted not as causation but as contemporality. But contemporality of events is equivalent to companionship: two events which occur in the same time period without influencing or controlling one another can metaphorically be called temporal companions. In cases in which contemporality was difficult to imagine, the informants rejected the combination.
Word Forms
- contemporalities
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, cotemporaneousness, concurrentness, contemporanean, cotemporality.
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