adjective
- Occurring in the same period of time.
- usage: "a rise in interest rates is often contemporaneous with an increase in inflation"; "the composer Salieri was contemporary with Mozart"
- synonyms: contemporary
- Of the same period.
- synonyms: coetaneous, coeval
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