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Contemporaneity

Definition: Contemporaneity

Contemporaneity

Noun

1. The quality of being current or of the present: "a shopping mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this village".

2. The quality of belonging to the same period of time.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Contemporaneity

Synonyms: contemporaneousness (n), modernism (n), modernity (n), modernness (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Contemporaneity

Specialty definitions using "contemporaneity": time correlation. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Contemporaneity

DomainTitle

Books

  • Lecture - Geological Contemporaneity and Persistent Types of Life [DOWNLOAD: MICROSOFT READER] (reference)

  • Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry : The Contemporaneity of Modernism (reference)

  • Postmodernisms Now: Essays on Contemporaneity in the Arts (Literature and Philosophy) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Contemporaneity

"Contemporaneity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Contemporaneity" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%1882,615

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Contemporaneity

Language Translations for "contemporaneity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏المعاصرة. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

съвременност (modernity), едновременност (simultaneity). (various references)

   

Czech

  

souèasnost (present). (various references)

   

French

  

contemporanéité. (various references)

   

German

  

Gleichzeitigkeit (concomitance, concurrency, contemporaneousness, simultaneity, simultaneousness, synchronism). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kortársiasság. (various references)

   

Manx

  

co-emshiraght. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ontemporaneitycay

   

Portuguese

  

contemporaneidade. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

современность (here and now, modernity). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

savremenost (modernity), sadašnjost (present). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

tiempo contemporáneo. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

samtidighet (simultaneity). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

eşzamanlılık (simultaneity, synchronism). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

сучасність (here and now, modernity, nowadays, today), одночасність (simultaneity). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tính chất cùng thời tính chất đương thời (contemporaneousness). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Contemporaneity"

Words rhyming with "contemporaneity" (pronounced 'Con*tem`po*ra*ne"i*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Contemporaneity

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-m-n-n-o-o-p-r-t-t-y"

-3 letters: intercompany.

-4 letters: actinometer, actinometry, cementation, contraption, incompetent, nonoperatic, omnipotence, oneiromancy, penetration, prenominate.

-5 letters: antiproton, compatriot, competitor, craniotomy, enantiomer, encryption, entrapment, importance, importancy, interocean, marionette, nonreceipt, omnipotent, optometric, patronymic, pentatonic, permanency, permeation, pertinency, portamenti, portamento, prominence, protection, pycnometer, remittance, renominate, tryptamine.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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