noncontemporary

N1O1N1C3O1N1T1E1M3P3O1R1A1R1Y4

adjective

Not contemporary.

Scrabble 24
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

adjectivenoncontemporary (not comparable)
  1. not comparableNot contemporary.
nounnoncontemporary (plural noncontemporaries)

plural noncontemporaries

  1. A person who is not the contemporary of another; one who lives in a different time period.

    Thus, it might well be true that we are in no position to know what we owe to more remote future noncontemporaries in accordance with egalitarian conceptions of justice. We are in no position to determine their pertinent relative differences […]

    2016, Michael Schramm, Thomas Pogge, Elke Mack, Absolute Poverty and Global Justice

Origin

From non- + contemporary.

Full word history & related roots →
Cite this entry
APA

noncontemporary. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/noncontemporary

MLA

“noncontemporary.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/noncontemporary. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “noncontemporary,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/noncontemporary.

Source: noncontemporary on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.