zeitnah

== German == === Etymology === Zeit (“time”) +‎ nah (“near”) === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈtsaɪ̯tˌnaː/ === Adjective === zeitnah (strong nominative masculine singular zeitnaher, comparative zeitnäher, superlative am zeitnächsten) soon, timely [from 1990s] Synonyms: baldig, umgehend, schnell (dated) current, contemporary, zeitgeisty Synonyms: aktuell, gegenwartsnah, gegenwärtig, up to date, zeitgemäß, zeitkritisch ==== Usage notes ==== Originally, zeitnah was mainly used in the context of art and reporting, in the literal sense of “close to the zeit[geist]” — both the present and the respective past epoch. In contemporary usage the newer sense “soon” (often implying “as soon as possible”) dominates, substituting variously bald (“soon”), unverzüglich (“immediately”), zügig (“brisk”) etc. ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === “zeitnah” in Duden online “zeitnah”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[3] (in German) “zeitnah”, in Online-Wortschatz-Informationssystem Deutsch (in German), Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, 2008– “zeitnah”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer.