contemporaneousness

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Smith is trying to see “how closely to contemporaneousness a finished book might be able to be in the world,” as she told one interviewer.

From Slate • Jan. 30, 2018

"Satin Island" also owes something to the dot-com-era work novel; an air of catastrophic contemporaneousness hangs over the proceedings as U. is sustained by and trapped in a system he knows cannot possibly last.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2015

Alexander Eliot Venice, Calif. Every artwork created in the past possesses a dual aspect: its contemporaneousness when created and its saturation with time as it survives through the ages.

From Time Magazine Archive

Such a novel deserves to be called quite as truly romance and prose poem, save that Balzac's vraisemblance, his gift for photographic detail and the contemporaneousness of the setting, make it modern.

From Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities by Burton, Richard

The geography of the despatch is in close harmony with that of the Book of Exodus, and bears witness to the contemporaneousness of the latter with the events it professes to record.

From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)