NOUN
- the quality of belonging to the same period of time
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the quality of being current or of the present
a shopping mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this village
How To Use contemporaneity In A Sentence
- ‘The most modern of all poets,’ he called Donne, and it is precisely this sense of Donne's contemporaneity that links the diverse voices assembled here.
- The postmodern moment in Hong Kong art took the form of a rejection of all master narratives, whether of Chineseness or of Western-centered conceptions of modernity or contemporaneity.
- Their paintings were executed to be perceived as living art, and it is that dimension of their self-aware contemporaneity that still conveys a certain excitement.
- And, indeed, so long as relative age only is spoken of, correspondence in succession _is_ correspondence in age; it is _relative_ contemporaneity. Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews
- I will give some examples of artist and their works to emphasize the notion of modernity and contemporaneity discussed above.
- Patches of contemporaneity sprouted here and there but the general concert menu had not changed in generations and, despite lavish subsidy, there was no public demand for reformation.
- On what amount of similarity of their faunae is the doctrine of the contemporaneity of the European and of the North American Essays
- And I don't think deconstruction is the only answer to modernity or contemporaneity.
- The perceiving individual's terminal attitudes constitute an anticipatory contact experience in which the futurity of distant objects is reduced to an abstract contemporaneity.
- Coherent ice-flow lines reconstructed from bedforms across the Irish lowlands indicate contemporaneity of drumlinization and moraine building in eastern and western Ireland.