polychronicadj.

1907 F. E. Clements Plant Physiol. & Ecol. iv. 201 A form that arises in two or more places is called polytopic, one originating at different times, polychronic.

1944 Mod. Lang. Jrnl. 28 666 Only by means of the vastest analogies can an orchestral style, at the same time polychronic, polyphonic, and polymorphic..be successfully attained.

1968 Hist. & Theory 4 73 In the scientific reconstruction of the process of development, the historian begins by establishing the genetic pair through selection of the starting point in both the polychronic and synchronic sequences of the system.

1997 Jrnl. Biogeogr. 24 762/2 The Bat Site is a polychronic mixture of bones spanning most of the Holocene.

1972 Amer. Educ. Res. Jrnl. 9 354 Latin America, by contrast, is ‘polychronic’, with simultaneity and involvement illustrated by its plazas.

1993 Their World, Our World iii. 101 Much of the traditionally more nurturant work both in and out of the home—such as child rearing.., kinship and neighbor relations, financial management, communication..customer relations, nursing, and teaching—remains mostly polychronic in nature.

2000 Guardian 7 Apr. 12/1 It is a society..where we are time-driven, clock obsessed, and which ‘insists we complete tasks in a linear, orderly, and logical fashion, when our brains, for thousands of years, worked in a polychronic way.’