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cotemporality en · NOUN

Etymology

From co- + temporality.

Meanings

  1. The state or characteristic of existing or occurring during the same period of time.
    • Young women who adopt urban attire deny cotemporality to their locally dressed counterparts by accusing them of feudal marital and dating practices. 2004, Sara L. Friedman, “Embodying Civility: Civilizing Processes and Symbolic Citizenship in Southeastern China”, in The Journal of Asian Studies, volume 63, number 3, page 714:
    • Tolstoj goes on to stress the cotemporality of past and present as he tells us that all of these precious moments return to Andrej's memory "not merely as something past but as something present." 1984, Nicholas O. Warner, “The Texture of Time in War and Peace”, in The Slavic and East European Journal, volume 28, number 2, page 198:

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Relateds

cotemporal · cotemporally

Synonyms

contemporaneousness · contemporaneity