synchrony
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simultaneous occurrence; synchronism.
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Linguistics. the study of a linguistic system at a single moment in time; a synchronic approach to language study.
The book primarily discusses synchrony and is focused on current variation in the German language.
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Etymology
Origin of synchrony
First recorded in 1840–50; synchron(ous) + -y 3
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“If I’m syncing with you, my prediction error is minimized,” says Dr. Oliver Saunders Wilder, an interpersonal synchrony researcher affiliated with MIT’s Affective Computing Group.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
“My hunch is that the synchrony is kind of the point,” he says.
From Science Magazine ● May 7, 2024
"Many neurological and psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, epilepsy and Parkinson's involve disruption of emergent properties like neural synchrony," they write.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 17, 2024
For example, astronomers studying six planets orbiting a star 100 light years away have just found that they orbit their star with an almost rhythmic beat, in perfect synchrony.
From Salon ● Feb. 6, 2024
Leeches have been heard to tap rhythmically on leaves, engaging the attention of other leeches, which tap back, in synchrony.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
Dr. Kozorovitskiy had seen the Cell study showing that interacting mice produce synchronies in the medial prefrontal cortex.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2021
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