syncategoreme

Definitions of syncategoreme
  1. noun
    a syncategorematic expression; a word that cannot be used alone as a term in a logical proposition
    “logical quantifiers, adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions are called syncategoremes”
    synonyms: syncategorem
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    antonyms:
    categoreme
    a categorematic expression; a term capable of standing alone as the subject or predicate of a logical proposition
    type of:
    word
    a unit of language that native speakers can identify
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