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simultaneity (n.)
1650s, from simultaneous + -ity.
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simultaneous (adj.)1650s, from Medieval Latin simultaneus, perhaps from simultim "at the same time," extended from Latin simul "at the same time," related to similis "like, resembling, of the same kind" (see similar), or from simul with ending abstracted from Late Latin spontaneus, where the -t- is organic. Related: Simultaneously.
-ity
word-forming element making abstract nouns from adjectives and meaning "condition or quality of being ______," from Middle English -ite, from Old French -ete (Modern French -ité) and directly from Latin -itatem (nominative -itas), suffix denoting state or condition, composed of -i- (from the stem or else a connective) + the common abstract suffix -tas (see -ty (2)).
Roughly, the word in -ity usually means the quality of being what the adjective describes, or concretely an instance of the quality, or collectively all the instances; & the word in -ism means the disposition, or collectively all those who feel it. [Fowler]
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Definitions of simultaneity
simultaneity (n.)
happening or existing or done at the same time;
Synonyms: simultaneousness
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