diachronic
/daɪ.əˈkɹɑnɪk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.91 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, pertaining to or concerned with changes that occur over time.
Example Sentences
- "The sum total of their acts forms a pattern of diachronic historical laws, describing the transition from one social system to the next, and also functional laws showing the interrelation of such features as technology, forms of property, class barriers, state institutions, and ideology."
- "[…] one salient value of archival magazine preservation is that individual issues register, however unintentionally, the small, incremental, diachronic movements within a culture."
- "It is plain that natural science has developed more diachronic concern, more of the longer historical approach in its interests and repertory, in the last two centuries than in the two millennia before."
- "I also take a more diachronic perspective and relate the growth of empire to changes in the regional market system as they occurred in the transition from the Early Aztec to the Late Aztec periods."
- "In short, it's usual for the syuzhet to appear more diachronic at the beginning and more synchronic at the end."
- "Rethinking the revolution issue is therefore the key to any novel interpretation, but it needs to be addressed in a more diachronic and synchronic fashion, comparing the Wende to earlier German upheavals and to the concurrent transformation of East Central Europe."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /daɪ.əˈkɹɑnɪk/
- British English: /daɪ.əˈkɹɒnɪk/
Inflected Forms
more diachronic (comparative)
most diachronic (superlative)