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Synizesis

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Word	Definition
synezesisnoun	Alternative form of synizesis. [(prosody, phonetics, poetry) The fusion of two syllables into one without the formation of a recognized diphthong, especially to fit a certain poetic meter.]

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Word	Definition
synezesisnoun	Alternative form of synizesis. [(prosody, phonetics, poetry) The fusion of two syllables into one without the formation of a recognized diphthong, especially to fit a certain poetic meter.]
synchesisnoun	Alternative form of synchysis. [(poetics) A complicated, interlocking word-order pattern in early Latin verse, demonstrated by Virgil and his contemporaries.]
synecphonesisnoun	(grammar) A contraction of two syllables into one.
synchysisnoun	(rhetoric) Confused arrangement of words in a sentence
synchisisnoun	Alternative form of synchysis. [(poetics) A complicated, interlocking word-order pattern in early Latin verse, demonstrated by Virgil and his contemporaries.]
synapheanoun	Any plant of the genus Synaphea, especially one of the type species Synaphea petiolaris.
syndesisnoun	(orthopedics, surgery) Synonym of arthrodesis, the artificial fusion of a joint between two or more bones.
assonancenoun	(prosody) The repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds (though with different consonants), usually in literature or poetry.
isosyllabicitynoun	(linguistics, poetry) the use of isosyllabic verse
synœcismnoun	Alternative spelling of synoecism. [(Ancient Greece) The unification of towns, tribes etc. under one capital city or polis.]
synthetonnoun	(rhetoric) A set phrase linking two or more non-synonymous words by conjunction.
synthesisnoun	The formation of something complex or coherent by combining simpler things.
syllepsisnoun	(rhetoric) A figure of speech in which one word simultaneously modifies two or more other words such that the modification must be understood differently with respect to each modified word; often causing humorous incongruity.
synaesthesianoun	(neurology, psychology) A neurological or psychological phenomenon whereby a particular sensory stimulus triggers a second kind of sensation.
synesisnoun	(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."
metaphonynoun	(phonology) A sound change in which a vowel's pronunciation is affected by another.
syndeticitynoun	(grammar) The use of syndeton, the state or quality of using a conjunction or equivalent conjunctive structure.
synacmynoun	Alternative form of synacme. [(dated, botany) synanthesis]
homœophonynoun	Archaic spelling of homeophony. [(chiefly of two or more words) Phonic similarity; the quality of being similar-sounding.]
ambisyllabicitynoun	(poetry, phonetics) The property of a consonant being analysed as acting simultaneously as the coda of one syllable and the onset of the following syllable, as in "upper" or "button".