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Phoneme vs Synizesis - What's the difference?

phoneme | synizesis |

As nouns the difference between phoneme and synizesis

is that phoneme is an indivisible unit of sound in a given language. A phoneme is an abstraction of the physical speech sounds (phones) and may encompass several different phones while synizesis is an obliteration of the pupil of the eye.

phoneme

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An indivisible unit of sound in a given language. A phoneme is an abstraction of the physical speech sounds (phones) and may encompass several different phones.

    • Derived terms

    * * * phonemic * phonemical * phonemically * phonemicist * phonemics

    Related terms

    * allophone * allophonic * allophonical * allophonically * allophonics * diaphone * diaphonic * diaphonical * diaphonically * diaphonics * diaphonologic * diaphonological * diaphonologically * diaphonology * phone * phonetic * phonetical * phonetically * phonetics * phonic * phonical * phonically * phonics * phonologic * phonological * phonologically * phonologist * phonology

    See also

    * chereme * chroneme * grammeme * grapheme * lemma * lexeme * listeme * morpheme * sememe * toneme

    External links

    * (wikipedia "phoneme")

    Anagrams

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    synizesis

    English

    Noun

    (synizeses) (wikipedia synizesis)
  • (medicine) An obliteration of the pupil of the eye.
  • A poetic figure of speech in which two consecutive vowel sounds in the same word are pronounced as a single phoneme so that certain words adhere to a particular poetic meter.

    • See also

    * crasis