contemporality
UK/kənˌtɛmpəˈɹælɪtɪ/
contemporality noun: the quality of being contemporary; contemporaneousness.
Noun
contemporality (usually uncountable, plural contemporalities)
- The quality of being contemporary; contemporaneousness.
- They exist and are contemporaneous. Contemporality does not mean, however, that they occupy the same geo-physical moment of time on the globe.1964: Iqbal Academy (Lahore, Pakistan), Iqbal review, volume 5, page 78
- 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...1988, Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn, editor, Topics in cognitive linguistics, J. Benjamins, →ISBN, page 583, →ISBN
Forms of contemporality
| plural | contemporalities |
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Origin of contemporality
contemporal + -ity or con- + temporality
Questions about contemporality
- What does contemporality mean?
- Contemporality means the quality of being contemporary; contemporaneousness.
- What part of speech is contemporality?
- Contemporality is a noun.
- How do you pronounce contemporality?
- Contemporality is pronounced /kənˌtɛmpəˈɹælɪtɪ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of contemporality?
- The plural of contemporality is contemporalities.
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