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syneresis

syneresis is the alternative spelling 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 syneresis

pluralsynereses

Words formed from syneresis

Questions about syneresis

What is syneresis the alternative spelling of?
Syneresis is the alternative spelling of synaeresis.

Words near syneresis in the dictionary

  1. synemin
  2. synendemic
  3. synephrine
  4. synepitheliochorial
  5. synereses
  6. syneresis
  7. synergetic
  8. synergetically
  9. synergetics
  10. synergic
  11. synergically

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Adapted from Wiktionary: syneresis (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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