synchronic
- adjective
- /sɪŋˈkrɒnɪk/
- Specialized
:
sincrónico
- Linguists often use a synchronic approach to analyze language as it exists in a specific moment.
- synchronic and diachronic
- synchronic metalepsis
- synchronic relationships
Examples
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Although the facts I describe could be studied historically, my perspective is synchronic.
Academic text (1996) -
Third, past studies have involved synchronic analyses; they were designed to identify the content of mission statements at a specific point in time.
Academic text (2015) -
Variety and flexibility, in other words, are likely to appear in any synchronic perspective.
Academic text (1992) -
What exactly allows these sporadic inversions to become regular, in the absence of a general synchronic rule?
Academic text (2002) -
For historians, phenomena that happen at the same time are embodied and rendered meaningful through the synchronic axis of history.
Academic text (2016) -
The synchronic system of meaning formally embedded in the book is synonymous with the natural cycles that it narrates.
Academic text (2016) -
The second motivation for past research has been both the synchronic and diachronic variation between the (a) and (b) types of sentences in (2-5) above.
Academic text (1995) -
The synchronic structure that underlies and occasionally disrupts these diachronic patterns offers, if not solutions, then different constellations.
Academic text (2000) -
First, there might be a well-grounded demonstration of the diachronic and synchronic unanimity of the episcopate regarding the teaching on the resurrection of the body.
Academic text (2002) -
By focusing in this way on how a text gains meaning from its contextualization as well as the impossibility of recovering an original context for the act, Gustafsson is foregrounding how a text's significance comes from synchronic relationships in the present and most particularly from the relationship between text and reader.
Academic text (2000)
Synonyms
7
8.4
Happening at the same time as another thing
4
7.4
Happening at the same time as something else
Happening at the same time
Happening at the same time as another thing
Antonyms
Compounds
How Synchronic
- Specialized
- Specialized
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9.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
synchronic = synchronous (semi-transparent) = syn + chron + ic
Formed from 'syn-' + 'chron-' + '-ic', but the technical linguistic sense (contrast with 'diachronic') and possible confusion with English 'chronic' make full inference by an average learner uncertain.
Etymology
Synchronic comes from the Greek parts syn- meaning 'together' and chron- meaning 'time', so think of a single 'snapshot' that shows something at one moment. A synchronic study looks at a language or culture 'at one time' without following its history.