Meanings
plural contemporalities
- uncountableusuallyThe quality of being contemporary; contemporaneousness.
They exist and are contemporaneous. Contemporality does not mean, however, that they occupy the same geo-physical moment of time on the globe.
1964: Iqbal Academy (Lahore, Pakistan), Iqbal review, volume 5, page 781 more example
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.
1988, Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn, editor, Topics in cognitive linguistics, J. Benjamins, →ISBN, page 583, →ISBN
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