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coevality

coevality

9.9
The state of being the same age or present at the same time as something else
  • noun
  • /koʊˈiːvəlɪti/
translation icon : coetaneidad
  • The painter captured the coevality of the old building and the modern city in her artwork.
  • grant coevality

Examples

  • Despite Gaskell's juxtaposition of the marriage plot with Mary's, Esther's, and Jem's different kinds and rhythms of waiting, the novel does not grant coevality to Esther.

    Academic text (2016)
  • The ethical conundrums of fieldwork are not identical to the ethical negotiations of the novel; it is more comfortable for me to talk of "granting" coevality to a fictional character than to a human being.

    Academic text (2016)
  • And yet, what makes his vision so unique is, among other things, their coevality with cinema itself.

    Blog text (20)
  • Gaskell's narrator seems to be not so much refusing coevality as demonstrating its limits, proposing within the meanwhile an idea of relative time.

    Academic text (2016)
  • For me, the most interesting and productive moment with respect to both narration and ethics is the moment at which the texts imagine not a homochronism nor a coevality but an often disturbing notion of relative time(s).

    Academic text (2016)
  • Much of the understanding of the connection between ethics and temporality comes to us via anthropology, specifically through the conversations initiated by Johannes Fabian's idea of "coevality." 13

    Academic text (2016)
  • Readers—especially, perhaps, re-readers of Mary Barton—could, theoretically, "grant" that coevality, working against the temporal grain of the novel.

    Academic text (2016)
  • Such inscriptions may only be overcome by explicit assertions of authorship and resulting narratives that suggest coevality, in this case the contemporary life and vital presence of Native Americans in world dialogues.

    Academic text (2004)
  • While granting coevality to the Other importantly allows that Other a present tense, it may underemphasize different histories, different experiences of time, and different temporalities—in other words, it might sacrifice the insights of relative time.

    Academic text (2016)
  • The coevality of the two cultures allows them to influence each other significantly.

Synonyms

coevalness
vscoevality
  • Formal
9.9

The fact of existing at the same time as something else

is the same in meaning but uses a different noun ending

How Contemporary

simultaneity
1 7.9
coevality
9.9
to overlap
25 3.5

Surface Forms

coevality singular
coevalities plural

Morphology

coevality = coeval (semi-transparent) = coeval + ity

The adjective 'coeval' is relatively rare and its internal parts are not productive English morphemes, so learners cannot reliably derive its meaning from subparts.

Etymology

Coevality comes from co- 'together' and aevum 'age', so picture things that are 'together in age'. So, coevality means being the same age or existing at the same time.