symphoria
/sɪmˈfɔːɹi.ə/
symphoria noun: bringing together, integration, or coparticipation.
Noun
symphoria (uncountable)
- Bringing together, integration, or coparticipation.
- Empathy signifies exploring, reconnoitering, contemplating, estimating, judging, “feeling into,” but not “feeling with” the other person. Symphoria implies “feeling into” and “feeling and swing with” the other person.1939 November, Eugen Kahn, Helen G. Richter, “Sensitivity”, in The American Journal of Psychiatry, volume 96
- Specifically, the bringing together of reactants into the exact relative spatial arrangement and proximity most formative of chemical reactions. The term encompasses both neighboring group effects and catalysis by transition metal complexes, enzymes, or other molecules.
- It is proposed that [BbIm]OH along with a water molecule is able to catalyse the reaction due to symphoria.2019 January 25, Dr. Riyaj S. Tamboli, Dr. Mahesh M. Shidore, Dr. Radha Charan Dash, Dr. Ashish M. Kanhed, Nirav R. Patel, Dr. Shailesh R. Shah, Prof. Mangeram Ram Yadav, “Improved Rapid and Green...
Origin of symphoria
From Ancient Greek σῠμφέρω (sŭmphérō, “bring together”). The chemistry sense was coined by Robert Thornton Morrison and Robert Neilson Boyd in the 5th (1987) edition of Organic Chemistry.
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Questions about symphoria
- What does symphoria mean?
- Symphoria means bringing together, integration, or coparticipation.
- What part of speech is symphoria?
- Symphoria is a noun.
- How do you pronounce symphoria?
- Symphoria is pronounced /sɪmˈfɔːɹi.ə/.
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