Contemporaneous

Pro Tip 1/3

Use it when emphasizing that events occur simultaneously within a specific historical or chronological timeframe.

The coronations of the English and Spanish monarchs were contemporaneous events.

Pro Tip 2/3

It's often used in academic or formal writing to discuss events or phenomena in history, science, or art.

Picasso's earlier works were contemporaneous with the cubism movement's peak.

Pro Tip 3/3

'Contemporaneous' is not always interchangeable with 'contemporary' despite their similarity.

Though contemporaneous, their political ideologies were not contemporary in terms of popularity.