synchronism noun. ['sɪŋkrǝnɪz(ǝ)m] L16.
[Greek sugkhronismos, from sugkhronos SYNCHRONOUS: see -ISM.]
1. Coincidence or concurrence at the same point in time; contemporary existence or occurrence. Also, an instance of this, a coincidence in time. L16.

2. A statement or argument that two or more events etc. are synchronous; a historical account or table which treats comtemporaneous but separate events in conjunction; a synchronological description. L16.
b. Agreement in relation to the time of events described. rare. E17.
c. Consistency in historical detail, as in architecture. M19.
d. Representation of events of different times together, as in the same picture. M19.

3. The fact of keeping time; the fact of proceeding or successively recurring at the same rate and exactly together; coincidence of period, as of two sets of movements, vibrations, or alternations of electric current. M19.

■ synchronist noun (rare) a person living at the same time as another, a contemporary E18.

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