Home › Words › S › syntopiconsyntopiconsyntopicon · noun — A publication that indexes and compares a number of works in some field.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).EtymologyCoined as the name of an Encyclopaedia Britannica publication compiled by Mortimer Adler, A Syntopicon: An Index to The Great Ideas (1952).nounA publication that indexes and compares a number of works in some field.e.g.“Obviously, this makes for a syntopicon that is extremely personal, that defies all the rules of classification by verbal labels...” — 1966, Joseph Samuel Bois, The art of awareness: a textbook on general semantics:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.syntopically 62% match — In a syntopical manner. vs syntopicon →synonymicon 62% match — Synonym of thesaurus. vs syntopicon →syntaxonomy 59% match — A classification system based on syntaxa vs syntopicon →synoptic 57% match — Of or relating to a synopsis. vs syntopicon →thesaurus 56% match — A publication that provides synonyms (and sometimes antonyms and other semantic relations) for the words of a given language. vs syntopicon →syndetical 55% match — Synonym of syndetic. vs syntopicon →encyclopediac 53% match — Synonym of encyclopedic. vs syntopicon →synonymic 53% match — Of, relating to, or being a synonym. vs syntopicon →