zeitnah
German
Etymology
Zeit (“time”) + nah (“near”); Neologism of the 1990s and an example of how an informal compound made up of simple components can displace a large number of shorter and more precise words.
Pronunciation
Adjective
zeitnah (comparative zeitnäher, superlative am zeitnächsten)
Further reading
- “zeitnah” in Duden online
- “zeitnah”, in Online-Wortschatz-Informationssystem Deutsch (in German), Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, 2008–