connexion

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a connecting shape
noun a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it)
noun the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination

From Middle English connexioun, from Latin connexiō (“a conclusion, binding together”), from connectō.

She deprecated the connexion in every light. — Persuasion, Jane Austen
Her connexions may be worse than his. — Emma, Jane Austen
It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connexions everywhere. — The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx

connection, link

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