Synergy

Noun

 * 1) Behavior of a system that cannot be predicted by the behavior of its parts.
 * 2)  Combined action; the combined healthy action of every organ of a particular system; as, the digestive synergy.
 * 3)  An interaction between drugs where the effects are stronger than their mere sum.
 * 4) Benefits resulting from combining two different groups, people, objects or processes.

Antonyms

 * anergy (in economics)

Related terms

 * energy

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