Chronography

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. The technique of arranging and writing down events in the order they occurred in time ; a historical narrative or record that preserves the sequence of past occurrences
2. The practice of documenting happenings according to their temporal sequence ; a written chronicle that presents events in chronological succession
3. The method of recording events as they unfolded through time ; a historical composition that traces the progression of past affairs in order

Etymology: Chronography is a plain compound: "chrono-", from Greek "khronos" meaning "time", joined to "-graphy", from Greek "graphia", meaning "writing" or "a written description". Put together, the word literally means the writing or recording of time, which is what it has meant from the start. The word is built the same way as many scientific and scholarly terms, such as "biography" or "geography", where a Greek combining element is attached to "-graphy" to name a field of written record. Chronography therefore names the practice of setting events in their order of time, or the written account that does so.

Synonyms: chronology, timeline