Definition of synchronism in English:
synchronism
noun ˈsɪŋkrənɪz(ə)mˈsɪŋkrəˌnɪzəm
another term for synchrony
Example sentencesExamples
- In human adults, many biological functions display a physiological circadian rhythm that oscillates in synchronism with the sleep-wake rhythm.
- The last is a fair statement in particular for those experiments, on which were based Karl Jung's concepts of synchronism and transpersonal consciousness.
- He recommended that 10 days should be left out of the year 1582 to bring the calendar back into synchronism with the seasons.
- The entire ballroom was lively, moving in amazing synchronism to the beat of the 7-man band.
- The luminous element provided at an intersection of a desired drive line is driven to emit light in synchronism with scanning while scanning the scan lines at a specific frequency.
Derivatives
adjective sɪŋkrəˈnɪstɪk
A synchronistic meeting between Laura and two elderly British sisters reveals a message from beyond the grave.
Example sentencesExamples
- In a matter of moments, perfect strangers came together in synchronistic rhythm to share a common vision.
- As a former undergraduate, I am still immensely grateful for having been part of a handful of synchronistic meetings with students in the lab, between classes, or in tutorials.
- I predict that your life will have synchronistic resonance with several historical events.
- Certainly, synchronistic happenings are occasionally part of the experience of most of us, and there is something inherently unsatisfactory about the way in which they are customarily dismissed in our culture as mere coincidence.
adverbsɪŋkrəˈnɪstɪk(ə)li
The dramatic increase in childhood obesity in the past 50 years is synchronistically linked to the increase in the use of refined sugar in prepared foods.
Example sentencesExamples
- Individual books were apparently devoted exclusively to a particular area (southern and central Greece, Macedonia, Sicily, Persia), but within each book events were sometimes retold episodically, sometimes synchronistically.
- Also, on the bus she's reading the Drama of Being a Child, which synchronistically, I had been discussing with B the previous weekend.
- There must be a reason for all of this to be happening synchronistically.
- On the whole, however, we mix traditions far less than is typical within modern Paganism and do so synchronistically rather than eclectically.
Origin
Late 16th century: from Greek sunkhronismos, from sunkhronos (see synchronous).
Definition of synchronism in US English:
synchronism
nounˈsiNGkrəˌnizəmˈsɪŋkrəˌnɪzəm
another term for synchrony
Example sentencesExamples
- The luminous element provided at an intersection of a desired drive line is driven to emit light in synchronism with scanning while scanning the scan lines at a specific frequency.
- The entire ballroom was lively, moving in amazing synchronism to the beat of the 7-man band.
- The last is a fair statement in particular for those experiments, on which were based Karl Jung's concepts of synchronism and transpersonal consciousness.
- He recommended that 10 days should be left out of the year 1582 to bring the calendar back into synchronism with the seasons.
- In human adults, many biological functions display a physiological circadian rhythm that oscillates in synchronism with the sleep-wake rhythm.
Origin
Late 16th century: from Greek sunkhronismos, from sunkhronos (see synchronous).