different between wasting vs syntexis

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?we?st??/
• Rhymes: -e?st??

Verb

wasting

1. present participle of waste

Adjective

wasting (not comparable)

1. Causing a waste, or wasting away; causing pronounced loss of body mass.

Derived terms

• wasting disease

Translations

Noun

wasting (countable and uncountable, plural wastings)

1. Gradual deterioration or wasting away.

2. The act by which something is laid waste; destruction.

Translations

Anagrams

• stawing, tawings, tawsing

English

Etymology

From New Latin, from Ancient Greek ???????? (súnt?xis, “a melting”)

Noun

syntexis (uncountable)

1. (geology) A change in the structure of magma by melting or the assimilation of a different type of rock.
   • 1857, in the Geological Magazine, volume 85, page 355:

     [...] is immaterial whether this magma is derived from a distinct earth shell, or is produced by syntexis between the sima and the sialic rocks.

2. (medicine) emaciation or wasting away
   • 1885, Dujardin-Beaumetz, Indications for Antithermic Medication, in the New York Medical Abstract, volume 5, page 443:

     The patient feels no longer the irritating surface heat which so fatigues him; the syntexis or colliquation is less; he sleeps better, and this antithermic medication does well with forced feeding, [...]

See also

• syntaxis