Contemporariness

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Existence at the same time; contemporaneousness.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Existence at the same time; contemporaneousness.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The state or quality of being contemporary.
  • Word Usage
    "Most remarkably, for the majority of them the fact that Keats was writing when he was roughly their age strikes a crucial chord, and this perceived sense of contemporariness makes their study of Keats different from their perception of, for instance, Wordsworth and Coleridge, the two other major authors in the course."
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