synesis
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 7
/ˈsɪnɪsɪs/
(UK)
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/ˈsɪnɪsɪs/ (UK) · /ˈsɪnəsəs/ (US)
Definition of synesis
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- (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.
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noun
- (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.
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Etymology
Ancient Greek σύνεσις (súnesis, “unification, meeting, intelligence”).
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