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synesis en · NOUN

Pronunciation

/ˈsɪnɪsɪs/ (UK, US)
/ˈsɪnəsəs/ (US)

Etymology

Ancient Greek σύνεσις (súnesis, “unification, meeting, intelligence”).

Meanings

(uncountable, usually) A grammatical construction in which a word takes the gender or number not of the word with which it should regularly agree, but of some other implied word.
(uncountable, usually) The faculty of good judgment or comprehension, passive intelligence.

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
syneses	Number=Plur		lexicographic

Synonyms

constructio ad sensum

Translations (1)

de Synesis (grammar)