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Noncontemporary

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not contemporary. not-comparable
Noun
  1. 1
    A person who is not the contemporary of another; one who lives in a different time period.

    "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 […]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From non- + contemporary.

Etymology 2

From non- + contemporary.

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