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synchronism

synchronism noun: the state of being synchronous.

Noun

synchronism (countable and uncountable, plural synchronisms)

  1. The state of being synchronous.
  2. A temporal relationship between events.
    • It is the study of wanderwords that might be used as one of the elements to establish synchronisms among protolanguages, and thus better define their dates, not the opposite.2023, Marwan Kilani, On the traces of "apples", "plums", and "pears", John Benjamins Publishing Company
  3. The tabular arrangement of contemporary events etc. in history.

synchronism meaning in Tamil and Bengali

synchronism in Tamil

ஒருகாலங்காட்டுதன்மை, ஒத்தியக்கம்

synchronism in Bengali

সমকালিক হওয়ার অবস্থা

Synonyms of synchronism

Forms of synchronism

pluralsynchronisms

Origin of synchronism

By surface analysis, syn- + chron- + -ism.

Words formed from synchronism

Questions about synchronism

What does synchronism mean?
Synchronism means the state of being synchronous.
What is synchronism in Tamil?
Synchronism in Tamil is ஒருகாலங்காட்டுதன்மை, ஒத்தியக்கம். See Synchronism meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is synchronism?
Synchronism is a noun.
What is the plural of synchronism?
The plural of synchronism is synchronisms.

Words near synchronism in the dictionary

  1. synchronised swimming
  2. synchroniser
  3. synchronisers
  4. synchronises
  5. synchronising
  6. synchronism
  7. synchronisms
  8. synchronist
  9. synchronistic
  10. synchronistically
  11. synchronists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: synchronism (page history and authors); synchronism (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); synchronism (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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