coeval
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- adjective
- /koʊˈiːvəl/
- Today, archaeological evidence and art historical study show the calligraphy of the Admonitions inscriptions and their accompanying painted illustrations to be coeval and of the later Six Dynasties (fifth-sixth century) in date.
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Examples
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The two authors were coeval, both publishing their first books in 1995.
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Until recently, little acknowledgment of the coeval aspect of the modernists and traditionalists was given in the standard texts on African art.
Academic text (2005) -
Coeval in age, at that point they coexisted in mind as well.
Fiction book (1991) -
The fresco presents them as nearly coeval, action and reflex in approximation.
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Gifts of food shared by ancestors and descendants, predecessors and successors, kinsmen and (until recently) kinswomen bind the clan together in the coeval community.
Academic text (1991) -
Although modern African art shared a similar temporal and conceptual matrix with modern art in Europe, emerging in definite form at the turn of the twentieth century, it is denied coeval identity in art-historical narratives.
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The fossils were found in layers that are coeval with the earliest signs of life on Earth.
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During the Renaissance, many artists were coeval, influencing each other's styles and techniques.
Synonyms
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Happening at the same time as another thing
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Living or happening at the same time
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Having the same limits in space, time, or meaning as something else
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Existing at the same time as something else
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Existing at the same time as something else
Happening at the same time as another thing
How Contemporary
Surface Forms
Morphology
coeval = co + aev + al
Built from the prefix 'co-' (together/with) + the Latin combining root 'aev' (age) + the adjectival suffix '-al'; the affixes are recognizable but the root is a learned combining form not a standalone English word, so the meaning is only partially recoverable.
Etymology
Coeval comes from Latin parts co- 'together' and aevum 'age', the same root you see in medieval. So if two things are coeval they belong to the same time and are 'of the same age'.