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synchronism

UK:**UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/ˈsɪŋkrəˌnɪzəm/US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling(singkrə niz′əm)


WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
syn•chro•nism  (singkrə niz′əm),USA pronunciation n. 
  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. Electricity, Physics[Physics, Elect.]the state of being synchronous.
  5. Psychiatrythe simultaneous occurrence of causally unrelated events and the belief that the simultaneity has meaning beyond mere coincidence.
  • Greek synchronismós, equivalent. to sýnchron(os) synchronous + -ismos -ism
  • Medieval Latin synchronismus
  • 1580–90
syn′chro•nistic, syn′chro•nisti•cal, adj. 
syn′chro•nisti•cal•ly, adv. 

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
synchronism /ˈsɪŋkrəˌnɪzəm/ n
  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
Etymology: 16th Century: from Greek sunkhronismos; see synchronous, -ism
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