ALL meanings of syntheses
syn·the·sis
S s - noun plural syntheses the combining of the constituent elements of separate material or abstract entities into a single or unified entity (opposed to analysis, ) the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements. 1
- noun plural syntheses a complex whole formed by combining. 1
- noun plural syntheses Chemistry. the forming or building of a more complex substance or compound from elements or simpler compounds. 1
- noun plural syntheses Philosophy. the third stage of argument in Hegelian dialectic, which reconciles the mutually contradictory first two propositions, thesis and antithesis. 1
- noun plural syntheses Biology. modern synthesis, a consolidation of the results of various lines of investigation from the 1920s through the 1950s that supported and reconciled the Darwinian theory of evolution and the Mendelian laws of inheritance in terms of natural selection acting on genetic variation. 1
- noun plural syntheses Psychology, Psychiatry. the integration of traits, attitudes, and impulses to create a total personality. 1
- noun syntheses an interpretive method, originally used to relate specific entities or events to the absolute idea, in which some assertible proposition (thesis) is necessarily opposed by an equally assertible and apparently contradictory proposition (antithesis) the mutual contradiction being reconciled on a higher level of truth by a third proposition (synthesis) 1