Syncresis

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of syncretism. often, proscribed, rare, uncountable

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synchresissyncretism

Etymology

Back-formation from syncretic, via a surface analysis by which the pattern of -esis (n) and -etic (adj) is involved, as it is (synchronically validly) with other analogous pairs (e.g., emesis and emetic; diaphoresis and diaphoretic; similarly, catachresis and catachrestic).

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