different between synthesis vs syncretism

English

Etymology

From Latin synthesis, from Ancient Greek ???????? (súnthesis, “a putting together; composition”), from ????????? (suntíth?mi, “put together, combine”), from ???- (sun-, “together”) + ?????? (títh?mi, “set, place”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?n??s?s/
• Hyphenation: syn?the?sis

Noun

synthesis (countable and uncountable, plural syntheses)

1. The formation of something complex or coherent by combining simpler things.
2. (chemistry) The reaction of elements or compounds to form more complex compounds.
3. (logic) A deduction from the general to the particular.
4. (philosophy) The combination of thesis and antithesis.
5. (military) In intelligence usage, the examining and combining of processed information with other information and intelligence for final interpretation.
6. (rhetoric) An apt arrangement of elements of a text, especially for euphony.
7. (grammar) The uniting of ideas into a sentence.
8. (medicine) The reunion of parts that have been divided.

Antonyms

• analysis

Derived terms

Related terms

• synthesize
• synthetic

Translations

Further reading

• synthesis in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• synthesis in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (súnthesis, “a putting together; composition”), from ????????? (suntíth?mi, “put together, combine”), from ??? (sún, “together”) + ?????? (títh?mi, “set, place”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?syn.t?e.sis/, [?s??n?t???s??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?sin.te.sis/, [?sin?t??s?is]

Noun

synthesis f (genitive synthesis or synthese?s or synthesios); third declension

1. A collection or reunion of many objects of analogous nature.
2. mixture, compound (medicine)
3. suit (of clothes), costume
4. a kind of loose garment, worn at table
5. dinner service

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem).

¹Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

Descendants

References

• synthesis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• synthesis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• synthesis in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• synthesis in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Welsh

Alternative forms

• sunthesis

Etymology

From English sythesis, from Latin synthesis, from Ancient Greek ???????? (súnthesis, “a putting together; composition”).

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /?s??n??s?s/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /?s?n??s?s/

Usage notes

Being a word borrowed from English derived from Greek, the y in synthesis is pronounced /??, ?/ rather than expected /?/. To preserve consistency between pronunciation and spelling, some prefer to spell this word sunthesis. Nevertheless, synthesis is the more common spelling of the two. See pyramid/puramid, symbol/sumbol, system/sustem for similar examples.

Noun

synthesis m (plural synthesisau, not mutable)

1. synthesis

Related terms

• syntheseiddio (“synthesise”)
• synthetig (“synthetic”)

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “synthesis”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

English

Etymology

From Latin syncretismus, from Ancient Greek ???????????? (sunkr?tismós, “federation of Cretan cities”), from ?????????? (sunkr?tíz?, “to unite against a common enemy”), from ??? (sún, “together”) (see English syn-) + ?????? (Krêtes, “Cretans”). Surface analysis is syn- +? Crete +? -ism ("Crete joining together").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s??k???t?sm/

Noun

syncretism (countable and uncountable, plural syncretisms)

1. (religion) The (attempted) reconciliation or fusion of different systems or beliefs.
   • 1995, Clinton E. Arnold, The Colossian Syncretism: The Interface Between Christianity and Folk Belief at Colossae, J.C.B. Mohr (Paul SieBeck), page 238,

     It provides a more natural explanation of the Colossian syncretism as stemming from local religious impulses that continued to wield a powerful draw on people converted to Christianity from the local Jewish communities and pagan cults. […] The kind of syncretism we find at Colossae was not unique to that city or region.

   • 2006, Gailyn Van Rheenen, 1: Syncretism and Contextualization: The Church on a Journey Defining Itself, Gailyn Van Rheenen (editor), Contextualization and Syncretism: Navigating Cultural Currents, Evangelical Missiological Society, page 7,

     Kraft's functional view of Anthropology eventually leads to syncretism because God is understood as working within a modern, humanistic paradigm.

   • 2010, Marguerite Fernández Olmos, Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, Creole Religions of the Caribbean, Claudio Iván Remeseira (editor), Hispanic New York: A Sourcebook, Columbia University Press, page 222,

     The strategies of religious syncretism—the active transformation through renegotiation, reorganization, and redefinition of clashing belief systems—are consistent with the creolization process.

2. (linguistics) The fusion of different inflexional forms.
   • 1993, Robert Coleman, Patterns of Syncretism in Indo-European, Henk Aertsen, Robert J. Jeffers (editors), Historical Linguistics 1989: Papers from the 9th International Conference, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 111,

     In this paper a distinction is assumed between full syncretism, which affects whole morphemes, and partial syncretism, which affects only some case allomorphs, and also between syncretism proper and mere loss of a case morpheme.

   • 2004, Ronald F. Feldstein, On the Structure of Syncretism in Romanian Conjugation, Julie Auger, J. Clancy Clements, Barbara Vance (editors) Contemporary Approaches to Romance Linguistics, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 177,

     Romanian conjugation displays several cases of syncretism, in which two paradigmatic slots share the same grammatical desinence. […] On the other hand, the syncretisms of the imperfect and subjunctive are not phonologically conditioned and, as such, apply to every verb without exception.

   • 2005, Michael Cysouw, Chapter 3: Syncretisms involving clusivity, Elena Filimonova (editor) Clusivity: Typology and Case Studies of Inclusive-exclusive Distinction, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 73,

     In this chapter, I will investigate whether they deserve this name by looking at syncretisms between clusivity and other person markers.

Related terms

• syncretic
• syncretize
• eclectic

Translations

Further reading

• Moral syncretism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Religious syncretism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Syncretism (linguistics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:Syncretism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Syncretism on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons