synchronic

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Essentially the Moors and Ramapaughs rejected the "diachronic" or historical explanation of their origins in favor of a "synchronic" self-identity based on a "myth" of Indian adoption.

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  1. adjective Synchronous.
  2. adjective Of or relating to the study of phenomena, such as linguistic features, or of events of a particular time, without reference to their historical context.

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  • This allows us to treat the linguistic landscape not only as a synchronic snapshot of a particular point in time, but as a diachronic palimpsest of episodes of stop sign erection and replacement.
  • Then a synchronic: thirty or so evenly spaced stills of the same process projected simultaneously—an eerie Janus head gone mad, a lifetime captured in a single moment, the flowering and withering of a human face. —  AnalogSFF,January-February2008
  • There is nothing harder than making the synchronic precision of this music release its larger diachronic message. —  CounterPunch
  • It is for this reason that Marx describes it as a "supersensible" property - something whose existence can be intuited by reason, but which is not immediately accessible to synchronic sense-perception alone. —  Roughtheory.org
  • What is directly accessible to the senses, however, appears random, contingent, and arbitrary in its synchronic presentation or even in its short-term movements. —  Roughtheory.org
 

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/sɪnˈkrɑnɪk/
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