Hypertext Webster Gateway: "polysynthesis"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Polysynthesis \Pol`y*syn"the*sis\, n. [Poly- + synthesis.]
1. The act or process of combining many separate elements
into a whole.

2. (Philol.) The formation of a word by the combination of
several simple words, as in the aboriginal languages of
America; agglutination. --Latham.


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