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The fact that two or more things happen in the same period of time, or belong to the same stretch of history. Writers use this noun when they want to name that same-time-ness as a thing in itself: the contemporaneity of two painters, or of a war and a book written during it. It is rare and very formal — almost only in history, art writing, and university work. Ordinary English almost never needs it. People say they lived at the same time, or they were contemporaries. Though actually contemporary, the everyday cousin, also means of now, modern, so students sometimes stretch contemporaneity toward being up to date. In careful use it still means same period, not fashionable. You will not hear this word in the shop or on the bus.
同時代性(學術用語;不是「當代感」)
組成By surface analysis, contempor(aneous) + -aneity. Contemporaneous means happening in the same period; -aneity is the ending that turns that idea into a noun: the quality of being in the same time.
同家族的字
- contemporaneousthe adjective: happening in the same period of time
- contemporaneouslythe adverb: in the same period of time
- contemporarythe common cousin: of the same time — and, unlike this word, also often of now
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
contemporaneitynoun
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The state or characteristic of being contemporaneous.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。