synchronism
[sing-kruh-niz-uh m]
noun
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.
RELATED WORDS
unanimity, synchroneity, simultaneity, correspondence, accord, consonance, accordance, union, concurrence, accompaniment, parallelism, correlation, conjunction, conformity, collaboration, concomitance
Nearby words
- synchroneity,
- synchronia,
- synchronic,
- synchronic study,
- synchronicity,
- synchronistic,
- synchronize,
- synchronized shifting,
- synchronized skating,
- synchronized swimming
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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Word Origin for synchronism
C16: from Greek sunkhronismos; see synchronous, -ism
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synchronism
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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synchronism
[sĭng′krə-nĭz′əm, sĭn′-]
n.
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