chrononauts
Journeyers through time
Chrononauts are time travelers—people who journey through time rather than space.
The word parallels astronaut and cosmonaut, substituting the Greek root for time.
The term appears almost exclusively in science fiction: The chrononauts returned from the 25th century with grim news.
Occasionally used playfully for historians or anyone deeply immersed in studying the past.
One navigating between eras
- temporalRelating to chronology
- paradoxSeemingly absurd truth
- wormholeHypothetical spacetime tunnel
- continuumUninterrupted, gradual sequence
flux · timeline · multiverse · causality · tachyon · singularity · space-time · dimension
Long-distance journey taker
- navigatorRoute-directing crew member
- pioneerEarly explorer or settler
- discovererOne locating something unknown
- pathfinderOne who discovers routes
expedition · odyssey · journey · quest · traverse · seeker · trailblazer · wanderer
time-traveler
One navigating between eras
continuum · flux · timeline · multiverse · causality · tachyon · singularity · space-time · dimension · closed-loop
voyager
Long-distance journey taker
- navigatorRoute-directing crew member
- pioneerEarly explorer or settler
- discovererOne locating something unknown
pathfinder · expedition · odyssey · journey · quest · traverse · seeker · trailblazer · wanderer · historian
relativity
How observers differ
cosmology · warp · stasis · entropy · dilation · theoretical · mechanics
chrononautsastronauts
Crew of spacecraft
cosmonauts · argonauts · aquanauts · voyagers · taikonauts
chronos, chronic, chronicle, chronicles, chronicler, chroniclers, chronological, chronologically, chronology