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parachronic

parachronic adjective: existing in a separate timeline or temporal dimension; pertaining to such existence or to connection or movement between timelines.

Adjective

parachronic (not comparable)

  1. Existing in a separate timeline or temporal dimension; pertaining to such existence or to connection or movement between timelines.
    • “I think it means that the whole thing has been planned and timed long, long ago,” said the Director. “That he went out of Time, into the parachronic state, for the very purpose of returning at this moment.”1945, C.S. Lewis, chapter 10, in That Hideous Strength, page 226

Origin of parachronic

From para- (“alongside”) + chronic, from Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”).

Questions about parachronic

What does parachronic mean?
Parachronic means existing in a separate timeline or temporal dimension; pertaining to such existence or to connection or movement between timelines.
What part of speech is parachronic?
Parachronic is an adjective.

Words near parachronic in the dictionary

  1. parachromatism
  2. parachromatoblepsia
  3. parachromatophorous
  4. parachromatopsia
  5. parachromophoric
  6. parachronic
  7. parachronism
  8. parachronisms
  9. parachronistic
  10. parachrose
  11. parachrysotile

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