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Definition of: synchronism
(sing′krə·niz′əm) noun
1. The state of being synchronous.
2. Coincidence in time of different events or phenomena; simultaneousness.
3. A tabular grouping of historic personages or events according to their dates.
4. In art, representation in the same picture of events having differing dates. [<LL synchronismus <Gk. synchronismos <synchronos SYNCHRONOUS]
—syn′chro·nis′·tic or ·ti·cal adjective
—syn′chro·nis′ti·cal·ly adverb
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