coevalness
- noun
- /koʊˈiːvəl.nəs/
- Formal
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coetaneidad
- The coevalness of the two historical cultures helped researchers understand their mutual influences.
Examples
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Radio brought a welcome distraction to inmates locked in their cells and, like motion pictures, triggered a sense of coevalness, or being virtually copresent with a loved one, as a Sing Sing inmate wrote his wife in the early 1930s about listening to the same church service: "I'll be in my cell hearing the service."
Academic text (2016) -
His important point is that this contemporality ("coevalness") needs to be acknowledged not just during fieldwork but in the writing of ethnographic texts and the formulation of "theory."
Academic text (1993) -
Little knowing it, we denied the people's equality with ours, their "coevalness," their common humanity as that humanity extended itself into the spirit world.
Academic text (1992) -
Michael Herzfeld's social poetics approach is predicated upon such an assumption of coevalness.
Academic text (1993) -
This split makes it hard to describe, and indeed hard to understand, the Nayaka framing of parent-child relations as a variant of sharing and as part of an ongoing coevalness throughout the life cycle.
Academic text (2008) -
They play a part in sustaining a universe conceived of and structured as involving ongoing coevalness and sharing within an intricate web of mutual dependencies.
Academic text (2008) -
These tangential antecedents of child feeding can too easily obscure the senses of sharing and coevalness which, I shall argue below, Nayaka associate with child feeding.
Academic text (2008) -
The exhibition's model of survival, retention, and transformation undermined the traditional anthropological denial of coevalness (Fabian 1983) and made cathartic disidentification impossible.
Academic text (2001) -
The artist's work captures the coevalness of urban life and nature in striking detail.
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In studying the coevalness of different species, scientists noted how their evolutionary paths intertwined.
Synonyms
The state of being the same age or present at the same time as something else
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word coevalness comes from the Latin parts co- meaning 'with' and aevum meaning 'age', and you can see the same root in medieval ('middle age'). So coevalness literally means 'being with the same age', which is why it describes things that exist or lived at the same time.