"contemporary characteristics" is correct and can be used in written English.
For example: "The contemporary characteristics of this painting reveal the artist's unique style."
This paper traces Colombo's historical development, provides a description of contemporary characteristics and challenges faced by the city, and examines the evolution of plans and programmes designed to improve the conditions of low-income settlements in the city.
Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly gave it a B+ for living up to its massive hype, adding "charm is the foremost of this epic's contemporary characteristics.
Secondly, contemporary forest characteristics are the result of growth, recruitment and mortality over many years.
He supported his ideas by citing contemporary societies characteristic of each stage except lower savagery, of which there were no extant examples.
During last 50 years operational research, mathematical modelling and computerised techniques of model analysis and optimisation contributed essentially to the change of perception of contemporary world, characteristic for the current informational revolution indicating the change of civilisation eras.
Contemporary challenges and characteristics and the prediction of future challenges demand new roles and missions for higher education.
To assess contemporary data on characteristics, management and 1-year postdischarge outcomes in Iranian patients hospitalised with acute coronary syndrome (ACS).
"What does it signify," Waltraud Perne, a social scientist and managing director of the Resability Forum, asks, "when Jürgen Habermas puts communication at the centre of his considerations?" (Germany's famous contemporary sociologist's characteristic articulation is due to a jaw anomaly. His main research field includes communication conditions in society).
It's a postmodern and self-consciously contemporary mosque with invented characteristics unique to Malaysia.
One of the strange characteristics of contemporary bourgeois life is the sheer pleasure we take in inverting it.
The conviction by the left that the right is stupid is one of the defining and least attractive characteristics of contemporary politics.
