cotemporal

Existing or occurring at the same time.

Adjective

  1. Existing or occurring at the same time.
    • Since indirect speech consists of only one experience, the only point of view is that of the quoting speaker, and present and NOW are cotemporal with the act of quotation. - 1997, Benjamin Lee, Talking Heads, page 307:

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin co-der. English co- English temporal English cotemporal From co- + temporal.

Forms

more cotemporal most cotemporal

Synonyms

contemporaneous

Related

cotemporally cotemporality