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contemporaneously

contemporaneously

2 8.4
At the same time or during the same period
  • adverb
  • /kənˌtɛmpəˈreɪniəsli/
translation icon : contemporáneamente
  • These two scientific theories were developed contemporaneously, showcasing different approaches to the same problem.

Examples

  • Almost contemporaneously, Anderson's lawsuits in Minnesota magnified the national picture.

    Academic text (2007)
  • Patients were recruited consecutively from the lipid clinic, and controls were recruited from among hospital staff and studied contemporaneously.

    Academic text (1992)
  • France draws largely on videos shot contemporaneously, as well as newly shot interviews with surviving ACT UP members.

    Blog text (27)
  • William and Adso live contemporaneously with the beginnings of modern science.

    Blog text (14)
  • Both Pakistan and Israel contemporaneously emerged as the Western colonial powers retreated from areas of the world that had been under their dominion.

    Academic text (2002)
  • Congress's understanding of the lawfulness and authority of military commissions was contemporaneously endorsed by the executive branch.

    Academic text (2018)
  • In fact, Cohen contemporaneously devoted two scholarly articles to defending the theses of chapter 7.

    Academic text (1994)
  • The broad conception of speech also contemporaneously informs pressing debates about police cameras, internet blogs, corporate financing of political campaigns, and protests near abortion clinics.

    Academic text (2017)
  • The two artists worked contemporaneously, creating influential pieces in the same decade.

  • Historical events were documented contemporaneously, providing a clear record of the time.

Synonyms

at the same time
vscontemporaneously
1.0

During the same time or moment

is more formal and used in written or scholarly contexts
meanwhile
vscontemporaneously
1.6

While something else is happening

denotes ordinary coexistence within a period rather than marking an intervening time
at once
vscontemporaneously
287 1.8

At the same time

is about timing within the same period, not urgency or immediacy
simultaneously
vscontemporaneously
209 4.2

At the same time

is used for events occurring during a period rather than one exact instant
at one time
vscontemporaneously
32 2.5

Happening at the same time

is about general co-occurrence over a period rather than one definite moment
concomitantly
vscontemporaneously
  • Formal
1 8.6

At the same time as something else

focuses on general same timing without implying a connection between events
synchronously
vscontemporaneously
1 6.4

Happens at the same time as something else

describes same period but not necessarily coordinated in rhythm or alignment
contemporarily
vscontemporaneously
7.0

At the same time as something else

is an alternate word form used for the same temporal meaning
synchronically
vscontemporaneously
7.9

Happening at the same time as other things

is broader, covering events during the same period without matched order
synchronistically
vscontemporaneously
9.2

In a way that happens at the same time as something else

focuses on occurrence within the same period without stressing the relation
coincidently
vscontemporaneously
4.3

Happening at the same time as something else

simply states temporal overlap without implying chance or lack of connection

Antonyms

At different times so things do not need to wait for each other

How Simultaneous

simultaneously
209 4.2
contemporaneously
2 8.4
together
511 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

contemporaneously = contemporaneous (transparent) = contemporaneous + ly

Formed by the regular addition of the adverbial suffix '-ly' to the adjective 'contemporaneous', yielding 'at the same time'.

Etymology

The word contemporaneously comes from Latin parts con- meaning 'together' and tempus meaning 'time', and is like the word contemporary. So contemporaneously means doing something 'at the same time' or 'during the same period'.