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Whats the word for the concept of something being already the case or true at the time? (lemmy.world)
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Contemporaneous(ly) or something?

Or using then-{descriptor}

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[–] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

Contemporaneous

"Contemporary" is a bit simpler. 😅

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    • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    A little tough to give a fully general template here, but my first instinct is to add "as was then the case" somewhere.

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    • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

    contemporaneous = existing, occurring, or originating during the same time. social and political events that were contemporaneous with each other

    contemporary = marked by characteristics of the present period
    The story is old, but has importance to contemporary audiences.

    current = occurring in or existing at the present time, presently elapsing, generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment
    current needs, current ideas about education

    Source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/

    I get the feeling that current might be the word you’re looking for.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    I honestly get the sense that "as was then the case" might be the phrase without a word if its not contemporaneous

    Thank you tho

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

    Ok, so something not necessarily tied to the present time?

    Something like: “The ancient Egyptians used copper chisels, as that was the best metal available at the time.” In that sense, you could say that those two things were indeed contemporaneous, because they occurred at the same time with one another.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 month ago* (2 children)
    • was the best contemporaneous metal
    • was the best metal contenporaneously

    Maybe one of those, contemporaneously seems to encapsulate "best metal as/per what was currently/then available"

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    I was just reading this article when I stumbled upon this quote:

    The most severely affected areas were in western and southern Ireland—where the Irish language was dominant—hence, in Irish, the period was contemporaneously known as an Drochshaol.

    So, in the 1840s and 1850s, there was a famine in Ireland, and locals at the time called Drochshaol. Those two things happened long ago, so they aren't contemporary any more. However, they happened at the same time with one another, so that's why they are contemporaneous. That's an odd word you don't see every day, but here it's entirely justified.

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