Synchronically, as an adverb, refers to events happening at the same time or in a synchronised manner. The opposite of synchronically is asynchronically. In this case, it means events occur at different times, without any coordination or simultaneity. Antonyms also include consecutively, where events follow each other in succession, and intermittently, where events are separated by intervals of time. Contrastingly, synonymous words for synchronically would be contemporaneously or simultaneously. In linguistic studies, synchrony refers to the present state of a language, while diachrony refers to the historical changes of a language over time. Thus, the antonym of synchronically considers that processes may be non-synchronous or non-real-time.