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synchresis¹

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Misconstructions continually rearising in isolated occurrences in each century, as occasionally individual speakers misspeak or writers miswrite.

noun synchreses

  1. misconstruction Misconstruction of syncrisis
  2. misconstruction Misconstruction of synchesis
  3. misconstruction Misconstruction of syncretism, especially via back-formation from syncretic.

    Similar: syncresis

synchresis²

Where it comes from

Said to be a blend of synchronism + synthesis. Apparently first attested in 1994.

noun synchreses

  1. A type of synergy in a mind's interpretation of combined audio and visual stimuli that either is an audiovisual type of synesthesia or is comparable and contrastable with such type of synesthesia. Synchresis (a word I have forged by combining synchronism and synthesis) is the spontaneous and irresistible weld produced between a particular auditory phenomenon and visual phenomenon when they occur at the same time. This join results independently of any rational logic. Synchresis is responsible

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@misc{synchresis_2026,
  title = {synchresis},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/synchresis},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}