contemporize

/kən'tempəraiz/ Cách viết khác : (contemporize) /kən'tempəraiz/
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contemporize

A designer works to contemporize a historical costume for a modern play.

Definition

  1. Verb (transitive):

    • To make something contemporary; to adapt or represent something so that it appears to belong to the present time. This involves updating or modifying the style, setting, or context of something (like a story, artwork, or idea) to align with current tastes, technology, or sensibilities.
    • To cause events to be represented as occurring at the same time or in a modern context. This meaning often relates to presenting historical or fictional events in a synchronized, concurrent, or modernized framework.

  2. Verb (intransitive):

    • To occur at the same time; to be contemporary. This is a less common usage meaning to exist or happen simultaneously with something else.
Usage and Examples

  • Transitive Verb:

    • The director chose to contemporize the classic play by setting it in a modern office. (The director updated the play's setting to make it feel current.)
    • Museums often contemporize their exhibits with interactive digital displays to engage younger visitors. (Museums modernize their exhibits using current technology.)
    • The textbook attempts to contemporize historical figures by discussing their motivations in modern psychological terms. (The textbook adapts the representation of historical figures to fit a modern perspective.)

  • Intransitive Verb:

    • These social movements contemporize with major technological shifts. (These movements happen at the same time as major technological changes.)
Advanced Usage
  • In Academic/Artistic Contexts: The term is frequently used in criticism, history, and the arts to discuss the act of modernization.
    • The artist's goal is not to replicate but to contemporize Renaissance techniques for a 21st-century audience.
  • In Business/Marketing: Used to describe updating a brand or product line.
    • The company's rebranding strategy seeks to contemporize its image without losing its heritage.
Variants and Related Words
  • Contemporization (noun): The act or process of making something contemporary.
    • The contemporization of the curriculum included adding modules on digital literacy.
  • Contemporary (adjective): Belonging to or occurring in the present; modern.
    • She studies contemporary art.
  • Contemporaneous (adjective): Existing or occurring at the same time.
    • The two wars were contemporaneous.
Synonyms
  • Modernize: To make modern in style or function.
  • Update: To make something more modern or current.
  • Synchronize (for the "represent as co-occurring" sense): To cause to occur or operate at the same time or rate.
  • Adapt: To make suitable for a new use or purpose.
Antonyms
  • Antiquate: To make old or obsolete.
  • Dated: Old-fashioned; not modern.
  • Archaisze: To make something seem archaic or deliberately old-fashioned.
Related Phrases/Concepts
  • Bring up to date: An informal phrase meaning to modernize.
    • We need to bring the software up to date.
  • Set in a modern context: A descriptive phrase for the act of contemporizing.
    • The novel sets the ancient myth in a modern context.
contemporize

A designer works to contemporize a historical costume for a modern play.

Verb
  1. arrange or represent events so that they co-occur
    • synchronize biblical events
  2. happen at the same time

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