Associations to the word «Synesis»

Wiktionary

SYNESIS, noun. (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."
SYNESIS, noun. (philosophy) The faculty of good judgment, intelligence.

Wise words

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever.
Dan Quayle