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synchronism

[sing-kruh-niz-uh m]
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noun
  1. coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
  2. the arrangement or treatment of synchronous things or events in conjunction, as in a history.
  3. a tabular arrangement of historical events or personages, grouped according to their dates.
  4. Physics, Electricity. the state of being synchronous.
  5. 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
Related formssyn·chro·nis·tic, syn·chro·nis·ti·cal, adjectivesyn·chro·nis·ti·cal·ly, adverb
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Examples from the Web for synchronism

Historical Examples

  • The motor then continues to run in synchronism with the generator.

    The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla

    Thomas Commerford Martin

  • The synchronism remains to be fully established by palæontological proofs.

    The Galaxy

    Various

  • There is no synchronism in the eruptions of Cotopaxi and Pichincha.

  • George the Syncellus says that the synchronism was accepted by all.

    Ancient Egypt

    George Rawlinson

  • This synchronism is a striking confirmation of Fleet and Geiger's chronology.

British Dictionary definitions for synchronism

synchronism

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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Word Origin

C16: from Greek sunkhronismos; see synchronous, -ism
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Word Origin and History for 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 in Medicine

synchronism

(sĭng′krə-nĭz′əm, sĭn′-)
n.
  1. Coincidence in time; simultaneousness.synchronia
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