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

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.