synesis
Meanings
noun
- 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.
- 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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