Definitions for synchronism

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synchronism syn·chro·nism

Spelling: [sing-kruh-niz-uh m]

IPA: /ˈsɪŋ krəˌnɪz əm/

Synchronism is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 457 anagrams from letters in synchronism (chimnnorssy).

Definitions for synchronism

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.

Origin of synchronism

1580-90; Medieval Latin synchronismus Greek synchronismós, equivalent to sýnchron(os) synchronous + -ismos -ism

Examples for synchronism

There was even a certain close approach to synchronism in dates of the more conspicuous incidents in each.

The synchronism remains to be fully established by palæontological proofs.

Asynchronism, a-sin′kro-nizm, n. want of synchronism or correspondence in time.

For Abraham, assuming him to be historical, we have a synchronism which fixes the date within narrow limits.

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

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

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

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

Such a coincidence (which is called a synchronism) is most valuable, and dates established by synchronisms are generally reliable.

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