synsemantic

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   of a word or phrase meaningful only when it occurs in the company of other words

   Similarsyncategorematic

   linguistics

Questions about synsemantic

What does synsemantic mean?

synsemantic means "of a word or phrase meaningful only when it occurs in the company of other words".

How many syllables are in synsemantic?

synsemantic has 4 syllables: syn-se-man-tic. The stress falls on "man".

Is synsemantic a common word?

synsemantic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.