"synesis" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈsɪnɪsɪs/ [UK, US], /ˈsɪnəsəs/ [US] Forms: syneses [plural]
Etymology: Ancient Greek σύνεσις (súnesis, “unification, meeting, intelligence”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|grc|σύνεσις||unification, meeting, intelligence}} Ancient Greek σύνεσις (súnesis, “unification, meeting, intelligence”) Head templates: {{en-noun|-|syneses}} synesis (usually uncountable, plural syneses)
  1. (grammar) 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, as in: "If the band are popular, they will play next month." Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Grammar
    Sense id: en-synesis-en-noun-zLsELSge Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 80 20 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 64 36 Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
  2. (philosophy) The faculty of good judgment or comprehension, passive intelligence. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Philosophy
    Sense id: en-synesis-en-noun-ej4M8IkC Topics: human-sciences, philosophy, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: constructio ad sensum [grammar, linguistics, human-sciences, sciences]

Inflected forms

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