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polychronistic

polychronistic is the alternative form of polychronic.

Meaning of polychronic

Adjective

polychronic (comparative more polychronic, superlative most polychronic)

  1. Happening at different times.
  2. Able to perform multiple tasks simultaneously.
    • A polychronic person may watch television, surf the Internet and talk on the telephone at the same time.
    Synonyms:
    multitasking
  3. Having or relating to a personality type or culture (distinguished from monochronic) which does not set a certain time to perform each task.

Questions about polychronistic

What is polychronistic the alternative form of?
Polychronistic is the alternative form of polychronic.

Words near polychronistic in the dictionary

  1. polychrones
  2. polychronic
  3. polychronically
  4. polychronicity
  5. polychronious
  6. polychronistic
  7. polychronization
  8. polychronizations
  9. polychronous
  10. polychrotid
  11. polychrotids

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Adapted from Wiktionary: polychronistic (page history and authors); polychronic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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