synchrony means synchronicity, the state of two or more events occurring at the same time. It carries an Arena rating of 1591, earned across 26 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, synchrony ranks #3,100 of 17,127 for Words That Escaped Their Books, #3,245 of 17,126 for Most Elegant Words, #4,541 of 17,142 for Most Ingenious Words, #5,704 of 17,134 for Most Malleable Words.
Why “synchrony” is a great word
SYNCHRONY — [Noun] The state or fact of two or more events occurring at precisely the same time or rate. From the Greek prefix syn- ("together, with") and chronos ("time"), with the noun-forming suffix -y. Unlike diachrony, which charts change across time, or synchronism, which suggests a deliberate, causal correspondence, synchrony is the pure, elegant fact of co-occurrence. It is the metronome’s click aligning perfectly with a falling leaf, the moment an entire flock of starlings banks as a single, dark thought, and the shared, unspoken sigh of a crowd when a light fails—a fleeting, wordless agreement with the clockwork of the world, an underlying order glimpsed before dissolving back into time's indifferent flow.
Etymology
By surface analysis, syn- + chron- + -y; historically, see synchronous § Etymology.
noun
- synchronicity, the state of two or more events occurring at the same time.
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