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Noncontemporary vs. Contemporary — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Noncontemporary and Contemporary

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Noncontemporary

Not contemporary.
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Contemporary

Living or occurring at the same time
The event was recorded by a contemporary historian
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Noncontemporary

A person who is not the contemporary of another; one who lives in a different time period.
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Contemporary

Belonging to or occurring in the present
The tension and complexities of our contemporary society
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Contemporary

A person or thing living or existing at the same time as another
He was a contemporary of Darwin
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Contemporary

Belonging to the same period of time
A fact documented by two contemporary sources.
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Contemporary

Of about the same age.
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Contemporary

Current; modern
Contemporary trends in design.
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Contemporary

One of the same time or age
Shelley and Keats were contemporaries.
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Contemporary

A person of the present age.
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Contemporary

From the same time period, coexistent in time; contemporaneous.
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Contemporary

Modern, of the present age (shorthand for ‘contemporary with the present’).
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Contemporary

Someone or something living at the same time, or of roughly the same age as another.
Cervantes was a contemporary of Shakespeare.
The early mammals inherited the earth by surviving their saurian contemporaries.
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Contemporary

Something existing at the same time.
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Contemporary

(dated) A rival newspaper or magazine.
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Contemporary

Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous.
This king [Henry VIII.] was contemporary with the greatest monarchs of Europe.
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Contemporary

Of the same age; coeval.
A grove born with himself he sees,And loves his old contemporary trees.
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Contemporary

One who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch and Chaucer were contemporaries.
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Contemporary

A person of nearly the same age as another.
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Contemporary

A person of nearly the same age as another
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Contemporary

Characteristic of the present;
Contemporary trends in design
The role of computers in modern-day medicine
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Contemporary

Belonging to the present time;
Contemporary leaders
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Contemporary

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
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