Etymology

syntropy

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Today it means: A tendency towards complexity, structure, order, organization of ever more advantageous and orderly patterns. Originally coined as a synonym for negentropy Full definition →

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By surface analysis, syn- + -tropy. First attested in 1871, in the anatomical sense.

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