synchronically
- adverb
- /sɪŋˈkrɒnɪkli/
- Specialized
:
sincrónicamente
- The question is considered synchronically as opposed to diachronically along a genealogical trajectory beginning with Gustave Courbet, which necessarily consigns the grand manner history painting practiced by Chassriau to the margins.
Examples
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As these archetypes reappear and are used in polysemous ways, the modes therefore operate synchronically.
Academic text (1992) -
Such an association of SEO with creo, leo, and veo would have extended the life of sea, which could no longer be derived synchronically from seer once this form had been replaced by its contracted allomorph, ser.
Academic text (2001) -
These can be traced synchronically, within the physical environment of the cult station, and diachronically, across its career.
Academic text (2005) -
However, the synchronically irregular forms in (1) are easily accounted for when viewed in a historical light.
Academic text (2001) -
We are complicated creatures with multifarious plans, projects, and desires in tension synchronically and diachronically.
Academic text (1999) -
They are not just, so to say, diachronically strung out but are synchronically superposed.
Academic text (2017) -
Instead, they declared Baganda of many generations as linked synchronically and transhistorically in associations without permanent or exclusive hierarchies.
Academic text (2005) -
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.
Academic text (2000) -
The linguist analyzed the language features synchronically, focusing on their current state rather than their evolution over time.
Antonyms
How Synchronous
Surface Forms
Morphology
synchronically = synchronic (semi-transparent) = syn + chron + ic + ally
The adverb is formed regularly by adding -ally to the adjective 'synchronic'.
Etymology
Synchronically comes from the Greek parts syn- 'together' and chronos 'time'. Think of studying something 'synchronically' like taking a photo: you look at it at one moment in time, not through its history.