polychronic

About 0.02 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Happening at different times.
2. adjective Able to perform multiple tasks simultaneously.

   A polychronic person may watch television, surf the Internet and talk on the telephone at the same time.

3. adjective Having or relating to a personality type or culture (distinguished from monochronic) which does not set a certain time to perform each task.

Similar words

homochronous simultaneous monochronic tautochronous isochronous synchronical synchronic concurrent coincidental coinstantaneous

Often followed by

time cultures culture people and orientation in behavior societies