synchronic distinction or '''synchronic contrast''', a distinction between two co-exisiting entities, e.g. between the EnglishPronouns ''he'' and ''she''. Opposed to a ''diachronic distinction'', between two entities that existed in different epochs, e.g. between the archaic English verbal Suffixes ''-eth'' and the modern ones ''-s''/''-es''.
synchronic process, in modern Philosophy Of Mind , the facilitation of immediate Conscious awareness in relatively brief time scales (such as 100 milliseconds).
