synchronism

American  

[sing-kruh-niz-uhm] / ˈsɪŋ krəˌnɪz əm /

noun

1. coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneity.

2. the arrangement or treatment of synchronous things or events in conjunction with one another, as in a history.

3. a tabular arrangement of historical events or personages, grouped according to their dates.

4. Physics, Electricity. the state of having the same frequency and zero phase difference.

5. (in the psychology of Carl Jung) the simultaneous occurrence of causally unrelated events and the belief that the simultaneity has meaning beyond mere coincidence.

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synchronism British  

/ ˈsɪŋkrəˌnɪzəm /

noun

1. the quality or condition of being synchronous

2. a chronological usually tabular list of historical persons and events, arranged to show parallel or synchronous occurrence

3. the representation in a work of art of one or more incidents that occurred at separate times

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Other Word Forms

• synchronistic adjective
• synchronistical adjective
• synchronistically adverb

Etymology

Origin of synchronism

First recorded in 1580–90; from Medieval Latin synchronismus, from Greek synchronismós, from sýnchron(os) synchronous + -ismos -ism

Example Sentences

Far from spurring people to abandon her old-fashioned methods and embrace electronic synchronism, the correspondence brought her services to the attention of many who had not previously subscribed.

From BBC • May 27, 2024

The political and the literary history of France join a sort of synchronism with one another at a certain point of time, which makes this arrangement not only feasible but natural.

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver

Shall we suggest with Leibnitz that reflection is nothing more than attention to what is passing in the mind, and that between the mind and the body there is a sympathetic synchronism?

From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by Draper, John William

Brooks ends his paper with a brief résumé of glacial changes in North America, but as the means of dating events are unreliable the degree of synchronism with Europe is not clear.

From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Huntington, Ellsworth

Then they hitched up a couple of two hundred kilowatt alternators so that they run in synchronism.

From The Radio Boys at Mountain Pass The Midnight Call for Assistance by Chapman, Allen

Related Words

• unanimity