Polysynthesis

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  • n. The act or process of combining many separate elements into a whole.
  • n. The formation of a word by the combination of several simple words; agglutination.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act or process of combining many separate elements into a whole.
  • n. The formation of a word by the combination of several simple words, as in the aboriginal languages of America; agglutination.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Composition of many elements; specifically, in philology, composition from an abnormal number and variety of elements.
  • Word Usage
    "Even easier languages would be those which exhibit extreme polysynthesis, such as Cherokee, where an entire English sentence can often be expressed in a single word."
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    Words with the same meaning