synchronism
[sing-kruh-niz-uh m]
- coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
- the arrangement or treatment of synchronous things or events in conjunction, as in a history.
- a tabular arrangement of historical events or personages, grouped according to their dates.
- Physics, Electricity. the state of being synchronous.
- Psychoanalysis. the simultaneous occurrence of causally unrelated events and the belief that the simultaneity has meaning beyond mere coincidence.
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Also syn·chro·nic·i·ty [sing-kruh-nis-i-tee] /ˌsɪŋ krəˈnɪs ɪ ti/ (for defs 1, 4, 5).
Origin of synchronism
1580–90; < Medieval Latin synchronismus < Greek synchronismós, equivalent to sýnchron(os) synchronous + -ismos -ism
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Contemporary Examples
The team had to make sure all the robots and lights were in place and the synchronicity of all the elements was intact.
Historical Examples
The means involved in achieving this synchronicity are characteristic of the various stages in human evolution.
The Civilization of IlliteracyMihai Nadin
synchronicity
- an apparently meaningful coincidence in time of two or more similar or identical events that are causally unrelated
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Word Origin
C20: coined by Carl Jung from synchronic + -ity
synchronism
- the quality or condition of being synchronous
- a chronological usually tabular list of historical persons and events, arranged to show parallel or synchronous occurrence
- the representation in a work of art of one or more incidents that occurred at separate times
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Word Origin
C16: from Greek sunkhronismos; see synchronous, -ism
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Word Origin and History for synchronicity
n.
1953; from synchronic + -ity. Originally in Jung.
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synchronism
n.
1580s, "quality of being synchronous," from Modern Latin synchronismus, from Greek synchronismos, from synchronos (see synchronous). Meaning "recurring at the same successive instants of time" is from 1854.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
synchronism
(sĭng′krə-nĭz′əm, sĭn′-)- Coincidence in time; simultaneousness.synchronia
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