synartesis

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Ancient Greek a fastening together.

Noun[edit]

synartesis (uncountable)

  1. A fastening or knitting together; close union.
    • 1809, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Friend:
      It is the object of the mechanical atomistic philosophy to confound synthesis with synartesis, or rather with mere juxtaposition of corpuscles separated by invisible interspaces.

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