Other forms: synopses
A synopsis is a short outline of a longer work. Write a synopsis, a one-page synopsis, the synopsis of the plot.
Publishers ask for one with every manuscript, and it must give away the ending, which is what separates a synopsis from a blurb. The Greek means a seeing together, a view of the whole at once.
1nounsynopsisA short outline of a longer work.
“The writer sent a two-page synopsis of her novel to several publishers.”
synopsis is an outline.
Greek synopsis means a seeing together, from syn, with, plus opsis, a view.
Proto-Indo-European
*sem-
Ancient Greek
σύνοψις
Latin
synopsis
English, today
synopsis
Built from
From Latin synopsis, itself from Ancient Greek σύνοψις, from σύν (“with or whole”) + ὄψις (“view”) meaning whole view.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA