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syn⋅chro⋅nism

  [sing-kruh-niz-uhm]
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–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:
1580–90; < ML synchronismus < Gk synchronismós, equiv. to sýnchron(os) synchronous + -ismos -ism

Related forms:
syn⋅chro⋅nis⋅tic, syn⋅chro⋅nis⋅ti⋅cal, adjective
syn⋅chro⋅nis⋅ti⋅cal⋅ly, adverb
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syn·chro·nism   (sĭng'krə-nĭz'əm, sĭn'-)   
n.  

  1. Coincidence in time; simultaneousness.

  2. A chronological listing of historical personages or events so as to indicate parallel existence or occurrence.

  3. Representation in the same artwork of events that occurred at different times.

syn'chro·nis'tic, syn'chro·nis'ti·cal (-tĭ-kəl) adj., syn'chro·nis'ti·cal·ly adv.
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Word Origin & History

synchronism 
1588, "quality of being synchronous," from Mod.L. synchronismus, from Gk. synchronismos, from synchronos (see synchronous). Meaning "recurring at the same successive instants of time" is from 1854.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

synchronism syn·chro·nism (sĭng'krə-nĭz'əm, sĭn'-)
n.
Coincidence in time; simultaneousness. Also called synchronia.

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