contemporaneous

/kən-ˌtem-pə-ˈrā-nē-əs/

borrowed from Medieval Latin contemporāneus, from Latin con- com-tempor-, tempus "time" + -āneus, compound suffix formed from -ānus + -eus -eous

adjective

  1. existing, occurring, or originating during the same time

social and political events that were contemporaneous with each other

contemporary contemporaneous coeval synchronous simultaneous coincident mean existing or occurring at the same time. contemporary is likely to apply to people and what relates to them. contemporaneous is more often applied to events than to people.