synesis
English
Etymology
Ancient Greek σύνεσις (súnesis, “unification, meeting, intelligence”).
Noun
synesis (usually uncountable, plural syneses)
- (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."
- (philosophy) The faculty of good judgment, intelligence.
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