noncontemporary

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

non- +‎ contemporary

Adjective[edit]

noncontemporary (not comparable)

  1. Not contemporary.

Noun[edit]

noncontemporary (plural noncontemporaries)

  1. A person who is not the contemporary of another; one who lives in a different time period.
    • 2016, Michael Schramm, Thomas Pogge, Elke Mack, Absolute Poverty and Global Justice:
      Thus, it might well be true that we are in no position to know what we owe to more remote future noncontemporaries in accordance with egalitarian conceptions of justice. We are in no position to determine their pertinent relative differences […]
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