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Not quizzing but desperately need to know:
Is there a single word, the opposite of contemporary (coeval)?
As in living at different times.
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Well, there is noncontemporary, or noncontemporaneous!  Quote:noncontemporary in British
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not contemporary I think you know this, but for others 'contemporary' on its own means modern - with the times now. Something can be contemporary with something - or the noun 'a contemporary of someone' is someone who was there at the same time as someone else. But two events happening at the same time are contemporaneous, not contemporary. If events occur at different times, when you would expect them to be at the same time, they are asynchronous. But more often used for machinery, or events in geological history!
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thar wrote:Well, there is noncontemporary, or noncontemporaneous! Quote:noncontemporary in British
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not contemporary I think you know this, but for others 'contemporary' on its own means modern - with the times now. Something can be contemporary with something - or the noun 'a contemporary of someone' is someone who was there at the same time as someone else. But two events happening at the same time are contemporaneous, not contemporary. If events occur at different times, when you would expect them to be at the same time, they are asynchronous. But more often used for machinery, or events in geological history! Thanks Thar Those words with non, somehow seemed inelegant  I was writing a blog where i needed to say that Walter Raleigh and John Donne were contemporaries but John Milton was not their contemporary.
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