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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Piling up of terms, especially adjectives, often as invective. rhetoric, uncountable

Etymology

From Latin, from Ancient Greek συναθροισμός (sunathroismós, “collection, union, rhetorical grouping of diverse words”).

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