Definition of "diachronic" in Englisch

adjective

1. Occurring over or changing with time.

2. Of, pertaining to or concerned with changes that occur over time.

   • 2012, Paolo Ramat, Sturtevant's paradox revisited, Thomas Stolz, Hitomi Otsuka, Aina Urdze, Johan van der Auwera (editors), Irregularity in Morphology (and Beyond), [page 61], Consequently, the perspective will be more diachronic than synchronic.