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noncontemporary

noncontemporary adjective: not contemporary.

Adjective

noncontemporary (not comparable)

  1. Not contemporary.

Noun

noncontemporary (plural noncontemporaries)

  1. A person who is not the contemporary of another; one who lives in a different time period.
    • Thus, it might well be true that we are in no position to know what we owe to more remote future noncontemporaries in accordance with egalitarian conceptions of justice. We are in no position to determine their pertinent relative differences […]2016, Michael Schramm, Thomas Pogge, Elke Mack, Absolute Poverty and Global Justice

Forms of noncontemporary

pluralnoncontemporaries

Origin of noncontemporary

From non- + contemporary.

Questions about noncontemporary

What does noncontemporary mean?
Noncontemporary means not contemporary.
What part of speech is noncontemporary?
Noncontemporary can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near noncontemporary in the dictionary

  1. noncontamination
  2. noncontaminative
  3. noncontemplative
  4. noncontemporaneous
  5. noncontemporaries
  6. noncontemporary
  7. noncontender
  8. noncontenders
  9. noncontending
  10. noncontent
  11. noncontention

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