Standard Lemma guide
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.
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: constructio ad sensum
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The faculty of good judgment or comprehension, passive intelligence.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Topics: human-sciences, philosophy, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Ancient Greek σύνεσις (súnesis, “unification, meeting, intelligence”).
Across languages
1 source translations are retained for this English entry.
