contemporaneousness

Example Sentences

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Smith is trying to see “how closely to contemporaneousness a finished book might be able to be in the world,” as she told one interviewer.

From Slate • Jan. 30, 2018

"Satin Island" also owes something to the dot-com-era work novel; an air of catastrophic contemporaneousness hangs over the proceedings as U. is sustained by and trapped in a system he knows cannot possibly last.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2015

Alexander Eliot Venice, Calif. Every artwork created in the past possesses a dual aspect: its contemporaneousness when created and its saturation with time as it survives through the ages.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the present case, however, the proof of the contemporaneousness of Man and the extinct animals does not depend simply on the identity of their mineral condition.

From The Antiquity of Man by Lyell, Charles, Sir

Concerning earlier periods, he was, aside from the Old Testament, practically without records that could claim contemporaneousness with the events recorded.

From The Christian View of the Old Testament by Eiselen, Frederick Carl