contemporaneity

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun the quality of being current or of the present
  2. noun the quality of belonging to the same period of time

Etymology

By surface analysis, contempor(aneous) + -aneity.

In classic literature

Synonyms

modernity, modernness, modernism, contemporaneousness

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