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n. - The quality of belonging to the same period of time; The quality of being current or of the present.

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  • There is an air of contemporaneousness about everything.
  • The anomaly had to do with the degree of contemporaneousness of cyclical movements in household and business investment, with the former leading the latter.
  • The thesis that experience of the contemporaneousness of art involves us in more than what we are presently aware of (i.e., the “substance” of underlying and on-going...
  • These tales had both contemporaneousness and vitality.
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