From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Contemporaneous \Con*tem'po*ra"ne*ous\, adjective [L. contemporaneus; con- + tempus time. See {Temporal}, and cf. {Contemporaneous}.] Living, existing, or occurring at the same time; contemporary.
The great age of Jewish philosophy, that of Aben Esra, Maimonides, and Kimchi, had been contemporaneous with the later Spanish school of Arabic philosophy. --Milman -- {Con*tem'po*ra"ne*ous*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: occurring in the same period of time; "a rise in interest rates is often contemporaneous with an increase in inflation"; "the composer Salieri was contemporary with Mozart" [syn: {contemporary}]
2: of the same period [syn: {coetaneous}, {coeval}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
46 Moby Thesaurus words for "contemporaneous": accompanying, actual, agreeing, as is, being, coetaneous, coeternal, coeval, coexistent, coexisting, coinstantaneous, collateral, concomitant, concurrent, contemporary, conterminous, coterminous, current, existent, existing, extant, fresh, immanent, immediate, instant, isochronal, isochronous, latest, modern, new, present, present-age, present-day, present-time, running, simultaneous, synchronal, synchronic, synchronous, that be, that is, topical, unison, unisonous, up-to-date, up-to-the-minute
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