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."