diachronically
- adverb
- /ˌdaɪəˈkrɒnɪkli/
- Specialized
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diacrónicamente
- When examining social trends, researchers often look at data diachronically to see how patterns shift over time.
Examples
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John Iliffe's work on the history of poverty remains the most comprehensive study of the meaning of poverty in Africa, chronologically and diachronically, structurally and theoretically.
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While analyzing diachronically the system of communication and exchange, we can grasp the dynamics of social relationships and at the same time account for their diversity in space and time.
Academic text (1993) -
While I fully agree with them regarding their constitutional claims, I am a little more open to the possibility that the emotions are diachronically necessary.
Blog text (20) -
Studying signscapes diachronically, especially with the help of a photographic record, can tie together the sociolinguistic past with the present.
Academic text (2003) -
An appropriate analogy would be the sediments of a riverbed that can be seen simultaneously and diachronically when a profile section is cut and analyzed.
Academic text (2006) -
Bhaskar is not "illiterate" in the normal sense (unlike some of his followers), but he is what could be called hermeneutically and diachronically illiterate.
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In this sense, the cultural translatability of the organisation intersects with its historical translatability; yet both of these factors are synchronically (and diachronically) contingent upon the individual experiences of the organisation's former and current staff.
Academic text (2016) -
As a community constituted around work, it excludes, synchronically, family life (Conrad's mariners often think about the wives they've left behind) and, diachronically, childhood and age.
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The sentence diachronically echoes and revises several revelatory scenes in the Bible, as Emerson tropes his Visionary into a figure of pure vision, energized by the spirit.
Academic text (1997) -
The historian studied the language diachronically to understand how it evolved over several centuries.
Synonyms
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3.8
About events or facts from the past
How Time-Based
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3.8
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
diachronically = diachronic (semi-transparent) = dia + chron + ic + ally
Forming the adverb from the adjective 'diachronic' by adding the regular adverbial suffix is a standard and transparent derivation.
Etymology
Diachronically comes from Greek parts dia- 'through' and chron- 'time', the same root as in chronology. So, to study something diachronically is to look at it 'through time' and see how it changes.