contemporality

English

Etymology

contemporal + -ity or con- + temporality

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kənˌtɛmpəˈɹælɪtɪ/

Noun

contemporality (usually uncountable, plural contemporalities)

1. The quality of being contemporary; contemporaneousness.
   • 1964: Iqbal Academy (Lahore, Pakistan), Iqbal review, volume 5, page 78

     They exist and are contemporaneous. Contemporality does not mean, however, that they occupy the same geo-physical moment of time on the globe.

   • 1988, Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn, editor, Topics in cognitive linguistics, J. Benjamins, →ISBN, page 583, →ISBN:

     When accepted, it was interpreted not as causation but as contemporality. But contemporality of events is equivalent to companionship: two events which occur in the same time period without influencing or controlling one another can metaphorically be called temporal companions. In cases in which contemporality was difficult to imagine, the informants rejected the combination.