Crasis

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  • n. One's constitution; the balance of humours in a person's body.
  • n. A mixture or combination.
  • n. The contraction of a vowel or diphthong at the end of a word with a vowel or diphthong at the start of the following word.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A mixture of constituents, as of the blood; constitution; temperament.
  • n. A contraction of two vowels (as the final and initial vowels of united words) into one long vowel, or into a diphthong; synæresis; as, cogo for coago.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In medicine, the mixture of the constituents of a fluid, as the blood; hence, temperament; constitution.
  • n. In grammar, a figure by which two different vowels are contracted into one long vowel or into a diphthong, as alēthea into alēthē, teicheos into teichous. It is otherwise called syneresis.
    • Word Usage
    "The only physical cause for the practice which suggests itself to me and that must be owned to be purely conjectural, is that within the Sotadic Zone there is a blending of the masculine and feminine temperaments, a crasis which elsewhere occurs only sporadically."
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    constitution    temperament    synaeresis   
     
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