different between phoneme vs synizesis

English

From Ancient Greek ?????? (ph?n?ma, “sound”), from ????? (ph?né?, “to sound”), from ???? (ph?n?, “sound”).

phoneme (plural phonemes)

An indivisible unit of sound in a given language. A phoneme is an abstraction of the physical speech sounds (phones) and may encompass several different phones.

From Ancient Greek ????????? (suníz?sis, “a sitting together”).

synizesis (countable and uncountable, plural synizeses)

(poetry) A poetic figure of speech in which two consecutive vowel sounds in the same word are pronounced as a single phoneme so that certain words adhere to a particular poetic meter.
(prosody) The pronunciation of two separate vowels as a single one.
(medicine) An obliteration of the pupil of the eye.
(biology) Dense clumping of chromosomes on one side of the nucleus, sometimes occurring prior to cell division.

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