| NOUN | communication | syncategoreme, syncategorem | a syncategorematic expression |
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| Meaning | A syncategorematic expression; a word that cannot be used alone as a term in a logical proposition. | |
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| Example | "logical quantifiers, adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions are called syncategoremes" | |
| Synonym | syncategorem | |
| Broader | word | A unit of language that native speakers can identify |
| Opposite | categorem, categoreme | A categorematic expression |
| Adjectives | syncategorematic | of a term that cannot stand as the subject or (especially) the predicate of a proposition but must be used in conjunction with other terms |
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