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Contemporary vs Contemporality - What's the difference?

contemporary | contemporality |

As nouns the difference between contemporary and contemporality

is that contemporary is someone or something living at the same time, or of roughly the same age as another while contemporality is the quality of being contemporary; contemporaneousness.

As an adjective contemporary

is from the same time period, coexistent in time.

contemporary

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • From the same time period, coexistent in time.
  • * Cowley
    • A grove born with himself he sees, / And loves his old contemporary trees.
  • * Strype
    • This king was contemporary with the greatest monarchs of Europe.
  • Modern, of the present age.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
    • , author=Robert L. Dorit , title=Rereading Darwin , volume=100, issue=1, page=23 , magazine= citation , passage=We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.}}
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=May 24 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3 , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=Men In Black 3 finagles its way out of this predicament by literally resetting the clock with a time-travel premise that makes Will Smith both a contemporary intergalactic cop in the late 1960s and a stranger to Josh Brolin, who plays the younger version of Smith’s stone-faced future partner, Tommy Lee Jones.}}
  • Relatively recent

    • Synonyms

    * contemporaneous

    Antonyms

    * anachronistic: in the wrong time period * archaic

    Noun

    (contemporaries)
  • Someone or something living at the same time, or of roughly the same age as another.
    • ''Cervantes was a contemporary of Shakespeare.
    ''The early mammals inherited the earth by surviving their saurian contemporaries .
  • Something existing at the same time.

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    contemporality

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The quality of being contemporary; contemporaneousness.
  • * 1964 : Iqbal Academy (Lahore, Pakistan), Iqbal review , volume 5, page 78
    • They exist and are contemporaneous. Contemporality does not mean, however, that they occupy the same geo-physical moment of time on the globe.
  • * 1988 : Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn [ed.], Topics in cognitive linguistics , page 583 (J. Benjamins; ISBN 9027235449, 9789027235442)
    • 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.