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0 Bread and Butter, Peanut Butter and Jelly, Corned Beef and Cabbage, Scotch and Soda; these are all matters of taste, but what I'm trying to portray is a concept of the combination of the parts being greater than the sum of the parts (2+2=5).  02br02br00In other words, two or more things, events, ideas, etc., are perceived to be of little value separately, but are very well perceived in combination. 02br02br00Is there a word that describes this concept? Serendipity and Lagniappe define two different "a little more or better" concepts, but don't quite fit the bill. 02br02br00Thank you for the temporary use of your "grey matter".... Terry K. Toedt 02br02br00P.S. Kind of the opposite of wire clothes hangers. One is good, more than one is bad, because as soon as you add others, entanglement occurs 00. I wonder if there is a term for that phenomenon (other than Chaos Theory)?... T 0-

Mister Micawber · Accepted Answer

0Lexical synergy? 0-

CalifJim · Answer

0 Maybe you could Google 01i00gestalt psychology02i00. It might lead you down some path of relevance to your question. 02br
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Asdf11391 · Answer

0 The basic word to describe the concept is "synergy." 0-

MrPedantic · Answer

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00P.S. Kind of the opposite of wire clothes hangers. One is good, more than one is bad, because as soon as you add others, entanglement occurs 10. I wonder if there is a term for that phenomenon (other than Chaos Theory)?... T 12br
10I wonder whether you could call it 'hypertaxis' or 'perissotaxis', i.e. 'superfluity of order'. 12br
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