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parasyntheses

parasyntheses is the plural of parasynthesis.

Meaning of parasynthesis

Noun

parasynthesis (countable and uncountable, plural parasyntheses)

  1. The formation of words by a combination of compounding and adding an affix, as in brown-eyed.
  2. The formation of words in which the prefixing and the suffixing are involved simultaneously, as in multifaceted.

Questions about parasyntheses

What is parasyntheses the plural of?
Parasyntheses is the plural of parasynthesis.

Words near parasyntheses in the dictionary

  1. parasynchronous
  2. parasynonym
  3. parasynonymous
  4. parasynonyms
  5. parasynonymy
  6. parasyntheses
  7. parasynthesis
  8. parasyntheta
  9. parasynthetic
  10. parasynthetically
  11. parasyntheton

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Adapted from Wiktionary: parasyntheses (page history and authors); parasynthesis (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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