synchroneity

English

Etymology

synchrone +‎ -ity

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Noun

synchroneity (usually uncountable, plural synchroneities)

1. The state or characteristic of being synchronous or synchronized.
   • 1979 April 13, Jocelyn Paine, “The partnership of artist and audience”, in Anchorage Daily News, retrieved 24 Aug. 2010, page D1:

     Artist and audience are bound together in a three-legged race, sometimes reluctant partners, sometimes joyful in synchroneity.

   • 1985, Richard J. Chorley et al., Geomorphology, →ISBN, page 539:

     Variously generated temperature curves for different localities do not always exhibit clear synchroneities.

   • 2004 December 9, Xianfeng Wang et al., “Wet periods in northeastern Brazil over the past 210 kyr linked to distant climate anomalies”, in Nature, volume 432, retrieved 24 Aug. 2010:

     This widespread synchroneity of climate anomalies suggests a relatively rapid global reorganization of the ocean–atmosphere system.

Synonyms

• synchronicity, synchronization; see also Thesaurus:simultaneousness