synchronic

Examples

• All

• The two events were happening in a synchronic manner, influencing each other simultaneously.

• We don't do science in some sort of synchronic vacuum.

• Its principle of assemblage has always been synchronic.

  Academic text (1996)

• Art and geography are not synchronic rhythms that may be played simultaneously without missing a beat.

  Academic text (2015)

• This is perfect fusion, and with responsible independence in the relation between these two different worlds, we see development and a synchronic articulation.

  Blog text (31)

• The story concludes abruptly in a kind of synchronic suspension that gives the sense of a reality not in temporal diachronic flux.

  Academic text (2016)

• For Bowen, the Big House survives the mists of synchronic time, reasserting itself as the half-realized entity it already was: a "reservoir of obscurity." 14

  Academic text (2010)

• In the eternal present of teen-directed rock and roll, even renderings of more traditional versions of the song take on a synchronic function, with the performer's persona and attitude trumping any sense of the bug as a really existing historical phenomenon.

  Academic text (2009)

• Computer imaging tends to flatten our magnificent, multi-sensory, simultaneous, and synchronic capacities of imagination by turning the design process into a passive visual manipulation, a retinal journey.

  Blog text (33)

• However, a synchronic, cross-cultural comparison reveals how the beadwork of Xhosa speakers, especially when compared as complete ensembles, constituted a semiotic system of structured differences through which identity could be minutely read.

  Academic text (2003)

Synonyms

S

simultaneous

vssynchronic

47 4.4

Happening at the same time as something else

is broader, covering the same period rather than exact timing

C

concurrent

vssynchronic

21 6.6

Happening at the same time as another thing

is similar but stresses mere existence during the same period

C

contemporaneous

vssynchronic

7 8.4

Happening at the same time as another thing

focuses on simple temporal overlap, not historical context specifically

S

synchronous

vssynchronic

4 7.4

Happening at the same time as something else

is more general, focusing on coexisting in the same period

S

synchronized

vssynchronic

• US

1 4.9

Happening at the same time in a planned way

describes natural coexistence rather than deliberate coordination

S

synchronistic

vssynchronic

1 7.9

Happening at the same time

is the neutral label for existing during the same period

C

coincident

vssynchronic

1 5.6

Happening at the same time

is the general idea of coexisting within the same period

I

isochronic

vssynchronic

• Specialized

9.2

Happening at exactly the same time as something else

is less strict, allowing occurrence across the same period

S

synchronal

vssynchronic

7.7

Happening at the same time

is about sharing time rather than matching a specific phase

C

coinciding

vssynchronic

4.4

Happening at the same time as another event

is wider, including events across the same time span

C

co-occurrent

vssynchronic

8.8

Happening at the same time as something else

is neutral about chance and simply notes shared timing

C

cooccurring

vssynchronic

6.2

Happening at the same time as something else

covers simultaneous existence without implying coincidence or chance

Antonyms

A

asynchronous

3 7.9

Not happening at the same time, for example a course you study on your own schedule

Compounds

S

synchronic linguistics

• Specialized

8.3

The study of a language at one time, not its past changes

How Simultaneous

simultaneous

47 4.4

synchronous

4 7.4

synchronic

8.9

coincident

1 5.6

asynchronous

3 7.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology