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synesis
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Synesis \Syn"e*sis\, n. [Gr. ? intelligence.] (Gram.) A construction in which adherence to some element in the sense causes a departure from strict syntax, as in ``Philip went down to Samaria and preached Christ unto them.''
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context grammar English) A grammatical construction in which a word takes the gender or number not of the word with which it should regularly agree, but of some other implied word, as in: "If the band '''are''' popular, they will play next month." 2 (context philosophy English) The faculty of good judgment, intelligence.
Wikipedia
Synesis is a traditional grammatical/rhetorical term derived from Greek (originally meaning "unification, meeting, sense, conscience, insight, realization, mind, reason").
A constructio kata synesin (or constructio ad sensum in Latin) means a grammatical construction in which a word takes the gender or number not of the word with which it should regularly agree, but of some other word implied in that word. It is effectively an agreement of words with the sense, instead of the morphosyntactic form.
Example:
If the band are popular, they will play next month.Here, the plural pronoun they and the plural verb form are co-refer with the singular noun band. One can think of the antecedent of they as an implied plural noun such as musicians.
Such use in English grammar is often called notional agreement (or notional concord), because the agreement is with the notion of what the noun means, rather than the strict grammatical form of the noun (the normative formal agreement). The term situational agreement is also found, since the same word may take a singular or plural verb depending on the interpretation and intended emphasis of the speaker or writer:
The government is united. (Implication: it is a single cohesive body, with a single agreed policy). The government are divided. (Implication: it is made up of different individuals or factions, with their own different policy views).Other examples of notional agreement for collective nouns involve some uses of the words team and none.
Although notional agreement is more commonly used in British English than in American English, some amount is natural in any variety of English. American style guides give advice, for example, on notional agreement for phrases such as a number of, a lot of, and a total of. The AMA Manual of Style says, "The number is singular and a number of is plural" (thus the number of mosquitoes is increasing but a number of brands of mosquito repellent are available) and "The same is true for the total and a total of" (thus the total was growing but a total of 28 volunteers have submitted applications [not *has submitted]). This is the same concept that is covered by Chicago style (16th ed) at "5.9 Mass noun followed by a prepositional phrase", but not all of the relevant nouns (including "number") are mass nouns.
Usage examples of "synesis".
Isolated by more than distance, it took little part in the politics of the World Federation, and after the Re-constitution, its role in the Synesis was slighter still.
Why had neither Federation nor Synesis ever managed to give Mars a boost over the threshold?
Why should the top authorities of the Federation, and later the Councillors of the Synesis, have minded?
The Synesis saw no urgency about developing one, after the theoretical possibility emerged.
But once the Centaurians had done the engineering, and passed their knowledge on to the Proserpinans, the Synesis must definitely have its own such craft.
If they like it there, we can begin dickering with the Synesis and whoever else might be concerned.
How then could she convince him that violence was not in the soul of the Synesis or its cyber-cosm?
We faced down some of the top trustees of the Synesis, and the cybercosm behind them, to acquire two old, unused torch ships at Earth and one moonjumper on Mars.
Foresters too were feeling alienated from the Synesis, hostile to its pervasiveness.
Even c-ships with nuclear warheads would be detectable in plenty of time to intercept And would the Synesis ever make war?
The Synesis yielded and made the transaction, quietly, and machines gave the Lahui the help to which they were entitled in refurbishing the old travelers.
Authoritative voices in the Synesis have frankly tried to persuade you to drop them.
Threedom, strengthen hostility elsewhere on Mars, and shake the Synesis on Earth.
The Synesis, confronted by general outrage and questioning, would have to make concessions, or more than concessions.
Without the moderating influence of the cybercosm, even the Synesis might be planning retaliation.