— 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; synchronismus synchronismós, equiv. to sýnchron ( os ) SYNCHRONOUS + -ismos -ISM ]