单词 | synchronism |
释义 | synchronism —synchronistic, synchronistical, adj. —synchronistically, adv. /sing"kreuh niz'euhm/, n. 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 , Elect. the state of being synchronous. 5. Psychoanal. the simultaneous occurrence of causally unrelated events and the belief that the simultaneity has meaning beyond mere coincidence. [1580-90; < ML synchronismus < Gk synchronismós, equiv. to sýnchron(os) SYNCHRONOUS + -ismos -ISM] |
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