Synchronicity vs. Synchrony — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Synchronicity and Synchrony
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Synchronicity
Synchronicity (German: Synchronizität) is a concept first introduced by analytical psychologist Carl G. Jung "to describe circumstances that appear meaningfully related yet lack a causal connection." Jung held that to ascribe meaning to certain acausal coincidences can be a healthy, even necessary, function of the human mind—principally, by way of bringing important material of the unconscious mind to attention. This further developed into the view that there is a philosophical objectivity or suprasubjectivity to the meaningfulness of such coincidences, as related to the collective unconscious.During his career, Jung furnished several different definitions of the term, defining synchronicity as "a hypothetical factor equal in rank to causality as a principle of explanation", "an acausal connecting principle", "acausal parallelism", and as the "meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved".
Synchrony
Simultaneous occurrence; synchronism.
Synchronicity
The state or fact of being synchronous or simultaneous; synchronism.
Synchrony
Synchronicity, the state of two or more events occurring at the same time.
Synchronicity
Coincidence of events that appear meaningfully related but do not seem to be causally connected, taken by Jungian psychoanalytic theory to be evidence of a connection between the mind and material objects.
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Synchrony
The concurrence of events in time; synchronism.
Geological contemporaneity is the same as chronological synchrony.
Synchronicity
(uncountable) The state of being synchronous or simultaneous.
Synchrony
The relation that exists when things occur at the same time;
The drug produces an increased synchrony of the brain waves
Synchronicity
(Jungian psychology) Coincidences that seem to be meaningfully related; supposedly the result of "universal forces".
Synchronicity
The relation that exists when things occur at the same time;
The drug produces an increased synchrony of the brain waves
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