Log in or Sign up
  1. symphysy love

Did you maybe mean one of these? symphony, symphysis

Definitions

Wiktionary

  1. n. obsolete, rare The fusion of two bodies, or two parts of a body

Examples

  • “Th lngst sch wrd n cmmn s s rhythms, nd th lngst sch wrd n Mdrn nglsh s th bslt 17th-cntry wrd symphysy. (f rchc wrds nd spllngs r cnsdrd, thr r mny mr, th lngst prhps bng twyndyllyngs, th plrl f twyndyllyng.) n th cmptr gm Th 7th Gst, n f th pzzls nvlvs vwllss sntnc,”

    MetaFilter Projects

Lists

These user-created lists contain the word ‘symphysy’.

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.

  • mollusque The fact of polysemy poses the fundamental problem for language analysis because it concerns the very nature of the basic entity of language: the combination of meaning and form, the symphysy of mental and physical that constitutes every word or morpheme.
    --Y. Tobin, 1989, From Sign to Text: A Semiotic View of Communication, p. 138
    Mar 3, 2008

  • mollusque Union or fusion of two bodies or parts of a body. Mar 3, 2008

Tweets

Looking for tweets for symphysy.

‘symphysy’ has been looked up 1309 times, added to 3 lists, commented on 2 times, and is not a valid Scrabble word.