Usually means: Combining forms to create words.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. parasynthesis: Merriam-Webster
  2. parasynthesis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. parasynthesis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. parasynthesis: Collins English Dictionary
  5. parasynthesis: Wordnik
  6. parasynthesis: Wiktionary
  7. parasynthesis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. parasynthesis: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. parasynthesis: Dictionary.com
  10. parasynthesis: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  11. parasynthesis: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Parasynthesis: Lexicon of Linguistics

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Definitions from Wiktionary (parasynthesis)

noun:  (grammar) The formation of words by a combination of compounding and adding an affix, as in brown-eyed.
noun:  (grammar) The formation of words in which the prefixing and the suffixing are involved simultaneously, as in multifaceted.

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