| ACATAMATHESIA | • acatamathesia n. (Pathology) A loss of the ability to understand, especially to understand speech. • ACATAMATHESIA n. the inability to understand data presented to the senses. |
| ACATAMATHESIAS | • ACATAMATHESIA n. the inability to understand data presented to the senses. |
| ANTIMETATHESIS | • antimetathesis n. The repetition of the same word in a sentence with a different meaning. • antimetathesis n. The inversion of the parts of an antithesis, as in "A poem is a speaking picture; a picture, a mute poem" (Crabbe). • ANTIMETATHESIS n. inversion of the members of an antithesis, as in Crabbe's 'A poem is a speaking picture; a picture, a mute poem'. |
| DIATHESIS | • diathesis n. (Medicine) A hereditary or constitutional predisposition to a disease or other disorder. • diathesis n. (Grammar) Voice (active or passive). • DIATHESIS n. a constitutional predisposition to a particular disease or condition. |
| MATHESIS | • mathesis n. (Now rare) Mental calculation or discipline; science, especially mathematical learning. • mathesis n. The science of establishing a systematic order for things. (After Foucault.) • MATHESIS n. mental discipline. |
| METATHESIS | • metathesis n. (Phonetics, prosody) The transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word, such as in ask as /æks/. • metathesis n. (Inorganic chemistry) The double decomposition of inorganic salts. • metathesis n. (Organic chemistry) The breaking and reforming of double bonds in olefins in which substituent groups are swapped. |
| METATHESISE | • metathesise v. Alternative form of metathesize. • METATHESISE v. to transpose by metathesis, metathesize. |
| METATHESISED | • metathesised v. Simple past tense and past participle of metathesise. • METATHESISE v. to transpose by metathesis, metathesize. |
| METATHESISES | • metathesises v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of metathesise. • METATHESISE v. to transpose by metathesis, metathesize. |
| METATHESISING | • metathesising v. Present participle of metathesise. • METATHESISE v. to transpose by metathesis, metathesize. |
| METATHESIZE | • metathesize v. (Linguistics) To undergo or to subject to metathesis; of sounds, to switch positions in a word. • METATHESIZE v. to transpose by metathesis, also METATHESISE. |
| METATHESIZED | • metathesized v. Simple past tense and past participle of metathesize. • METATHESIZE v. to transpose by metathesis, also METATHESISE. |
| METATHESIZES | • metathesizes v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of metathesize. • METATHESIZE v. to transpose by metathesis, also METATHESISE. |
| METATHESIZING | • metathesizing v. Present participle of metathesize. • METATHESIZE v. to transpose by metathesis, also METATHESISE. |
| PARATHESIS | • parathesis n. (Grammar) The placing of two or more nouns in the same case; apposition. • parathesis n. (Rhetoric) A parenthetical notice, usually of matter to be afterward expanded. • parathesis n. (Printing) The matter contained within brackets. |