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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
Misconstruction of syncrisis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, misconstruction
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noun
Misconstruction of synchesis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, misconstruction
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noun
Misconstruction of syncretism, especially via back-formation from syncretic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, misconstruction
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Synonyms: syncresis
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Misconstructions continually rearising in isolated occurrences in each century, as occasionally individual speakers misspeak or writers miswrite.
Said to be a blend of synchronism + synthesis. Apparently first attested in 1994.
