MEANING
The fact of existing or occurring during the same period.
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Words that belong together
- contemporaneity of sources
- establish contemporaneity
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The contemporaneity of the letters made their disagreement especially revealing.
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- contemporaneity
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Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: comparison. Commonness: uncommon.
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