xenochrony

/ziːˈnɒkɹəni/

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"Still, xenochrony was new: he had to fight his own engineers to allow him to do it, and it resulted in some extraordinary music."
"Xenochrony is the technical term for this, and you can hear it when several shamans participate in one ritual, each with a personal tempo of drumming, each addressing personal spirits. Xenochrony became, in fact, an important strand in the story of K-Space, the trio that Ken Hyder and I put together with Tuvan singer and instrumentalist Gendos Chamzyryn."

From xeno- (“alien”) + Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”), coined by Frank Zappa.

xenochronous

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How do you pronounce xenochrony?

The recorded pronunciation is /ziːˈnɒkɹəni/.

What does xenochrony mean?

Where does xenochrony come from?

From xeno- (“alien”) + Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”), coined by Frank Zappa.

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