| 单词 | synchronicity |
| 释义 | synchronicity (once / 171295 pages) n Ever step outside just as the sun comes out? Or pass by a street lamp at night, and it turns on at that moment, seemingly just for you? That's synchronicity, when things happen together, as if perfectly timed. If you're planning to lip-sync your next concert, you'll want to work on your synchronicity with your soundman. And speaking of music, if you're a rock-and-roll nerd, you're no doubt thinking of "Synchronicity," the megahit album by The Police, released in 1983. The term synchronicity was coined in the 1950s by the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, to describe uncanny coincidences that seem to be meaningful. The Greek roots are syn-, "together," and khronos, "time." WORD FAMILYsynchronicity: synchronicities+/desynchronize: desynchronization, desynchronizes, desynchronizing/synchronic: synchronically, synchronicity/synchronisation: desynchronisation/synchronise: desynchronise, synchronisation, synchronised, synchroniser, synchronises, synchronising/synchronised: unsynchronised/synchronism: synchronisms/synchronization: synchronizations/synchronize: desynchronize, synchronization, synchronized, synchronizer, synchronizes, synchronizing/synchronized: unsynchronized/synchronizer: synchronizers/synchronous: nonsynchronous, synchronously, unsynchronous/synchrony: synchronic, synchronise, synchronism, synchronize, synchronous USAGE EXAMPLESWhen it feels like you’re hitting tactical synchronicity off improvised solutions to surprises as they crop up, it’s because you are. Time(Nov 17, 2016) House of Representatives, the Senate, and, quite likely, the Supreme Court—may enter into an unusual state of ideological synchronicity. The New Yorker(Nov 17, 2016) “Without that, we won’t have unity and synchronicity when time is of the essence.” Washington Times(Oct 29, 2016) n the relation that exists when things occur at the same time Syn|Ant|Hyper synchroneity, synchronisation, synchronism, synchronization, synchronizing, synchrony asynchronism, asynchrony, desynchronisation, desynchronization, desynchronizing the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times temporal relation a relation involving time |
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