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synesis
[ sin-uh-sis ]
noun
Grammar.
- a construction in which an expected grammatical agreement in form is replaced by an agreement in meaning, as in The crowd rose to their feet, where a plural pronoun is used to refer to a singular noun.
synesis
/ ˈɪɪɪ /
noun
- a grammatical construction in which the inflection or form of a word is conditioned by the meaning rather than the syntax, as for example the plural form have with the singular noun group in the sentence the group have already assembled
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51Թ History and Origins
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of synesis1
via New Latin from Greek sunesis union, from sunienai to bring together, from syn- + hienai to send
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“There’s a lot of intellectual capital when you buy a business,” says Randy Katz, founder of Synesis Advisors and past president of the California Association of Business Brokers.
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Synesis, sin′e-sis, n. a grammatical construction in harmony with the sense rather than with strict syntax.
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Synesis, part of judgment, 2432 d.
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Hence there is need, besides euboulia, for another virtue, which judges well, and this is called synesis.
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Therefore synesis extends to all matters of judgment, and consequently there is no other virtue of good judgment called gnome.
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