synesis.
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.
Meaning & usage
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.
Where this word comes from
Ancient Greek σύνεσις (súnesis, “unification, meeting, intelligence”).
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.