'Synergy' definitions:
Definition of 'synergy'
(from WordNet)
noun
The working together of two things (muscles or drugs for example) to produce an effect greater than the sum of their individual effects [syn: synergy, synergism]
Definition of 'Synergy'
From: GCIDE
- Synergy \Syn"er*gy\, n. [Gr. ?. See Synergetic.]
- 2. Combined action; especially (Med.), the combined healthy action of every organ of a particular system; as, the digestive synergy. [1913 Webster]
- 2. An effect of the interaction of the actions of two agents such that the result of the combined action is greater than expected as a simple additive combination of the two agents acting separately; -- also called synergism.. Opposite to antagonism. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'synergy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accompaniment,
- accordance,
- agreement,
- alliance,
- association,
- bipartisanship,
- cahoots,
- co-working,
- coaction,
- coadjuvancy,
- coadministration,
- coagency,
- cochairmanship,
- codirectorship,
- coincidence,
- collaboration,
- collaborativeness,
- collectivism,
- collectivity,
- collusion,
- combination,
- combined effort,
- commensalism,
- common effort,
- common enterprise,
- communalism,
- communism,
- communitarianism,
- community,
- complicity,
- concert,
- concerted action,
- concomitance,
- concord,
- concordance,
- concourse,
- concurrence,
- confluence,
- conjunction,
- consilience,
- conspiracy,
- cooperation,
- cooperativeness,
- correspondence,
- duet,
- duumvirate,
- ecumenicalism,
- ecumenicism,
- ecumenism,
- esprit,
- esprit de corps,
- fellow feeling,
- fellowship,
- harmony,
- joining of forces,
- joint effort,
- joint operation,
- junction,
- mass action,
- morale,
- mutual assistance,
- mutualism,
- mutuality,
- octet,
- parasitism,
- pooling,
- pooling of resources,
- pulling together,
- quartet,
- quintet,
- reciprocity,
- saprophytism,
- septet,
- sextet,
- simultaneity,
- solidarity,
- symbiosis,
- synchronism,
- synergism,
- team spirit,
- teamwork,
- trio,
- triumvirate,
- troika,
- union,
- united action