English Explanatory Dictionary

synchresis

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Misconstruction of syncrisis.
  2. Misconstruction of synchesis.
  3. Misconstruction of syncretism, especially via back-formation from syncretic.
noun
  1. A type of synergy in a mind's interpretation of combined audio and visual stimuli that either is an audiovisual type of synesthesia or is comparable and contrastable with such type of synesthesia.

Word forms

synchresis synchreses

Etymology

Misconstructions continually rearising in isolated occurrences in each century, as occasionally individual speakers misspeak or writers miswrite.

Synonyms

syncresis
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