Crasis vs Synizesis - What's the difference?
crasis | synizesis | see also |
(obsolete) One's constitution; the balance of humours in a person's body.
*, I.iii.1.2:
*:Some men have peculiar symptoms, according to their temperament and crasis , which they had from the stars and those celestial influences
* 1759 , Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman , Penguin 2003, p. 24:
A mixture or combination.
(linguistics) 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.
* 1861 , William Edward Jelf, Accidence
(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.
As nouns the difference between crasis and synizesis
is that crasis is one's constitution; the balance of humours in a person's body while synizesis is an obliteration of the pupil of the eye.crasis
English
Noun
(crases) (wikipedia crasis)- This is all that ever stagger'd my faith in regard to Yorick''’s extraction, who, by what I can remember of him, and by all the accounts I could ever get of him, seem'd not to have had one single drop of ''Danish blood in his whole crasis
- When in a crasis , a lene consonant