What does "synchysis" mean?

A complicated, interlocking word-order pattern in early Latin verse, demonstrated by Virgil and his contemporaries.

What is a synonym for "synchysis"?

Common synonyms include: hysteron proteron, metastasis, palindrome, parenthesis.

Pronounced //ˈsɪn.kə.sɪs//.

/ˈsɪn.kə.sɪs/ noun

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Noun

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

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