Asyndeton
//æˈsɪn.də.tən// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Omission of conjunctions, especially for rhetorical effect. countable, rhetoric, uncountable
"Asyndeton, or the Loose language... as thus. I saw it, I said it, I will sweare it."
- 2 the omission of conjunctions where they would normally be used wordnet
Antonyms
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More examples"Asyndeton, or the Loose language... as thus. I saw it, I said it, I will sweare it."
Etymology
From Latin asyndeton, from Ancient Greek ἀσύνδετον (asúndeton), from ἀ- (a-, “a-, un-, non-”) and the neuter substantive of σῠ́νδετος (sŭ́ndetos, “bound, joined”), from συνδεῖν (sundeîn, “to join, to bind”), from σῠν- (sŭn-, “together”) + δεῖν (deîn, “to bind, to tie”). Equivalent to a- + syndeton.
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