Syn-ær'e-sis or Syn-ér'e-sis, n.

n. [Gr. συναίρεσις, a taking or drawing together, from συναίρειν, to take together, from σύν, with, and αἱρεῖν, to take with the hand, to grasp; Fr. synérèse.] (Gram.) A figure by which two vowels that are ordinarily separated are drawn together into one syllable; synecphonesis;—the opposite of diæresis.