Contemporaneous
adjective
Happening or existing at the same time.
The rise of industrialism was contemporaneous with the growth of capitalism.
Often appears as...
- contemporaneous with
- contemporaneous period
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Formal
Academic
adjective
Happening or existing at the same time.
The rise of industrialism was contemporaneous with the growth of capitalism.
Often appears as...
- contemporaneous with
- contemporaneous period
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Time Specific
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 2/3Academic Texts
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 3/3Not Interchangeable
'Contemporaneous' is not always interchangeable with 'contemporary' despite their similarity.
Though contemporaneous, their political ideologies were not contemporary in terms of popularity.
Pro Tip 1/3Time Specific
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 2/3Academic Texts
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 3/3Not Interchangeable
'Contemporaneous' is not always interchangeable with 'contemporary' despite their similarity.
Though contemporaneous, their political ideologies were not contemporary in terms of popularity.
Pro Tip 1/3Time Specific
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 2/3Academic Texts
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 3/3Not Interchangeable
'Contemporaneous' is not always interchangeable with 'contemporary' despite their similarity.
Though contemporaneous, their political ideologies were not contemporary in terms of popularity.
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Video examples
Clay Shirky: How the...
Now, this isn't just a contemporaneous question. This is something we've faced several times over the last few centuries. When the telegraph came along, it was clear that it was going to globalize the news industry. What would this lead to? Well, obviously, it would lead to world peace.
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A Rosetta Stone for the...
which existed 4000 years ago now the Indus civilization was roughly contemporaneous with the much better known Egyptian and the Mesopotamian civilizations was actually much larger than either of these two civilizations so it occupies an area of approximately
Video examples
Clay Shirky: How the...
Now, this isn't just a contemporaneous question. This is something we've faced several times over the last few centuries. When the telegraph came along, it was clear that it was going to globalize the news industry. What would this lead to? Well, obviously, it would lead to world peace.
Video examples
A Rosetta Stone for the...
which existed 4000 years ago now the Indus civilization was roughly contemporaneous with the much better known Egyptian and the Mesopotamian civilizations was actually much larger than either of these two civilizations so it occupies an area of approximately
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Quote examples
Rick Atkinson
American Author
I conduct very few interviews with veterans. The contemporaneous, or near-contemporaneous, record for WWII is so spectacularly deep that latter-day recollections are largely unnecessary for a historian. Of course, in considering any account, I'm looking for additional sources that can confirm or enlarge that version of events.
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Alan Furst
American Author
I write about the period 1933-42, and I read books written during those years: books by foreign correspondents of the time, histories of the time written contemporaneously or just afterwards, autobiographies and biographies of people who were there, present-day histories of the period, and novels written during those times.
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Timothee Chalamet
American Actor
Sometimes if I'm in my head before a take, I'll just like to reach out to the closest thing to me - the wall or a sharp edge - and just push into it. That way, my physical experience is totally contemporaneous and not in the clouds.
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Celine Sciamma
I like 'Girlhood' because it has this universal feeling, and that's also the project of the film, to bring very contemporaneous characters into the big fiction, and the classical idea of a heroine's emancipation.
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Jack Schwartz
Scientist
Jewish and Palestinian nationalism are virtually contemporaneous, and grew out of the disruptions that created new national movements from the ruins of the old empires / i.
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Sanjaya Baru
Indian Public Servant
While history has its limitations in shaping contemporaneous and forward-looking strategic choices, it does shape popular perceptions.
Quote examples
Rick Atkinson
American Author
I conduct very few interviews with veterans. The contemporaneous, or near-contemporaneous, record for WWII is so spectacularly deep that latter-day recollections are largely unnecessary for a historian. Of course, in considering any account, I'm looking for additional sources that can confirm or enlarge that version of events.
Quote examples
Alan Furst
American Author
I write about the period 1933-42, and I read books written during those years: books by foreign correspondents of the time, histories of the time written contemporaneously or just afterwards, autobiographies and biographies of people who were there, present-day histories of the period, and novels written during those times.
Quote examples
Timothee Chalamet
American Actor
Sometimes if I'm in my head before a take, I'll just like to reach out to the closest thing to me - the wall or a sharp edge - and just push into it. That way, my physical experience is totally contemporaneous and not in the clouds.
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Celine Sciamma
I like 'Girlhood' because it has this universal feeling, and that's also the project of the film, to bring very contemporaneous characters into the big fiction, and the classical idea of a heroine's emancipation.
Quote examples
Jack Schwartz
Scientist
Jewish and Palestinian nationalism are virtually contemporaneous, and grew out of the disruptions that created new national movements from the ruins of the old empires / i.
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Sanjaya Baru
Indian Public Servant
While history has its limitations in shaping contemporaneous and forward-looking strategic choices, it does shape popular perceptions.
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