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Synchroneity vs Synchrony - What's the difference?

synchroneity | synchrony |

As nouns the difference between synchroneity and synchrony

is that synchroneity is the state or characteristic of being synchronous or synchronized while synchrony is synchronicity, the state of two or more events occurring at the same time.

synchroneity

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being synchronous or synchronized.
  • * 1979 , Jocelyn Paine, " The partnership of artist and audience," Anchorage Daily News , 13 April, p. D1 (retrieved 24 Aug. 2010):
  • Artist and audience are bound together in a three-legged race, sometimes reluctant partners, sometimes joyful in synchroneity .
  • * 2004 , Xianfeng Wang et al.'', " Wet periods in northeastern Brazil over the past 210?kyr linked to distant climate anomalies," ''Nature , vol. 432, 9 Dec. (retrieved 24 Aug. 2010):
  • This widespread synchroneity of climate anomalies suggests a relatively rapid global reorganization of the ocean–atmosphere system.
  • (countable) A particular instance of objects, events, scientific data, etc. being in this state.
  • * 1985 , Richard J. Chorley et al.'', ''Geomorphology , ISBN 9780416325904, p. 539:
  • Variously generated temperature curves for different localities do not always exhibit clear synchroneities .

    Synonyms

    * synchronicity, synchronization

    synchrony

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • synchronicity, the state of two or more events occurring at the same time.