contemporaneously

English

WOTD – 22 April 2007

Etymology

From contemporaneous +‎ -ly, from Latin contemporāneus, from co- (“together”) + tempus (“time”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kənˌtɛmpəˈɹeɪni.əsli/, /ˌkɒntɛmpəˈɹeɪni.əsli/
• (US) IPA^(key): /kənˌtɛmpəˈɹeɪni.əsli/

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Adverb

contemporaneously (not comparable)

1. In a contemporaneous way: in the same period of time.

   Synonyms: cotemporaneously, contemporarily, cotemporally, coevally

   • 2008 April 3, Jaroslav Peregrin, “Book Reviews”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 1, →DOI, pages 131–135:

     And with Sellars’ shift to the centerground of philosophical interest, we have, all of a sudden, two such books appearing almost contemporaneously.

   • 2023 October 5, Devan Cole, “Media outlets ask judge for permission to broadcast Trump’s federal election subversion trial next year”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 11 November 2023:

     CNN and more than a dozen media outlets and groups asked US District Judge Tanya Chutkan for permission to “record and telecast” the March 2024 trial or for the court to “contemporaneously publish on YouTube its internally administered audiovisual livestreams and recordings of the proceedings.”

   • 2025 November 4, John Fritze, “What to watch for as the Supreme Court reviews Trump’s sweeping global tariffs”, in CNN‎^[2], archived from the original on 5 November 2025:

     Lawmakers in Congress were clearly aware of that when they enacted IEEPA with that same language. And that, the Department of Justice has argued, “strongly indicates that both Congress and the public contemporaneously understood that language to encompass tariffs.”

Usage notes

For events which occur at precisely the same time, simultaneously is used.

Translations

Translations

• Polish: bieżąco