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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The formation of words by a combination of compounding and adding an affix, as in downhearted, formed from down plus heart plus -ed, not down plus hearted.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The princple of formation of parasyntheta; combined composition and derivation.
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- noun grammar The formation of words by a combination of
compounding and adding anaffix .
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Examples
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Different dictionaries give it somewhat different definitions, but the nub of parasynthesis seems to be the formation of new words by affixing prefixes and suffixes fore and aft.
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As I've noodled over these three words, I've wanted to see them as examples of parasynthesis, a word I ran across this week, as I walked my fingers through the dictionary to confirm for a colleague that yes, paraprofessional was really there.
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Buy Yaz Online no Prescription a simulated progestational parasynthesis and has a molecular exert oneself of 366.5 and a molecular directions of C24H30O3.
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