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Synchysis

//ˈsɪn.kə.sɪs// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A complicated, interlocking word-order pattern in early Latin verse, demonstrated by Virgil and his contemporaries. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    Confused arrangement of words in a sentence countable, rhetoric, uncountable
  3. 3
    A confused mixture. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    Fluidity of the vitreous humour of the eye. countable, uncountable

Etymology

Through Latin from the Ancient Greek σύγχυσις (súnkhusis, “a mixing”).

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