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synairesis

synairesis is the alternative form of synaeresis.

Meaning of synaeresis

Noun

synaeresis (countable and uncountable, plural synaereses)

  1. (rhetoric) The contraction of two vowels into a diphthong or a long vowel.
  2. The separating out of the liquid from a gel.

Forms of synairesis

pluralsynaireses

Questions about synairesis

What is synairesis the alternative form of?
Synairesis is the alternative form of synaeresis.

Words near synairesis in the dictionary

  1. synagogue-going
  2. synagoguegoer
  3. synagoguegoers
  4. synagoguelike
  5. synagogues
  6. synairesis
  7. synalepha
  8. synalephas
  9. synalephe
  10. synalephes
  11. synalgia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: synairesis (page history and authors); synaeresis (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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