Syncope

//ˈsɪŋ.kə.pi//

Synonyms for "syncope" (90 found)

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Translations

80 translations across 33 languages.

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Albanian

1 entries
  • sinkopë noun (absence of a sound)

Arabic

1 entries
  • إِغْمَاء noun (loss of consciousness)

Breton

1 entries
  • meztroc'h noun (absence of a sound)

Bulgarian

3 entries
  • припадък noun (loss of consciousness)
  • синко́п noun (absence of a sound)
  • синко́п noun (loss of consciousness)

Catalan

1 entries
  • síncope noun (loss of consciousness)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries
  • 中略語 /中略语 noun (absence of a sound)
  • 切分音 noun (missed beat or off-beat stress)
  • 昏厥 noun (loss of consciousness)
  • 暈厥 /晕厥 noun (loss of consciousness)

Czech

4 entries
  • mdloba noun (loss of consciousness)
  • synkopa noun (absence of a sound)
  • synkopa noun (loss of consciousness)
  • synkopa noun (missed beat or off-beat stress)

Danish

1 entries
  • synkope noun (absence of a sound)

Dutch

1 entries
  • syncope noun (absence of a sound)

Finnish

4 entries
  • pyörtyminen noun (loss of consciousness)
  • sisäheitto noun (absence of a sound)
  • synkooppi noun (missed beat or off-beat stress)
  • synkopee noun (absence of a sound)

French

4 entries
  • pâmoison noun (loss of consciousness)
  • syncope noun (absence of a sound)
  • syncope noun (loss of consciousness)
  • syncope noun (missed beat or off-beat stress)

Galician

4 entries
  • agavante noun (loss of consciousness)
  • dada noun (loss of consciousness)
  • desvano noun (loss of consciousness)
  • testabau noun (loss of consciousness)

German

4 entries
  • Ohnmacht noun (loss of consciousness)
  • Synkope noun (absence of a sound)
  • Synkope noun (loss of consciousness)
  • Synkope noun (missed beat or off-beat stress)

Greek

3 entries
  • λιποθυμία noun (loss of consciousness)
  • συγκοπή noun (absence of a sound)
  • συγκοπή noun (missed beat or off-beat stress)

Hebrew

1 entries
  • עלפון noun (loss of consciousness)

Hungarian

4 entries
  • eszméletvesztés noun (loss of consciousness)
  • hangugratás noun (absence of a sound)
  • szinkópa noun (absence of a sound)
  • szinkópa noun (missed beat or off-beat stress)

Icelandic

1 entries
  • brottfall noun (missed beat or off-beat stress)

Italian

1 entries
  • sincope noun (loss of consciousness)

Japanese

2 entries
  • 気絶 noun (loss of consciousness)
  • 語中音消失 noun (absence of a sound)

Latin

2 entries
  • languor noun (loss of consciousness)
  • syncopē noun (loss of consciousness)

Macedonian

1 entries
  • си́нкопа noun (absence of a sound)

Malay

2 entries
  • lenyap bunyi noun (absence of a sound)
  • sinkope noun (absence of a sound)

Occitan

4 entries
  • esvanida noun (loss of consciousness)
  • esvaniment noun (loss of consciousness)
  • sincòpa noun (absence of a sound)
  • sincòpi noun (loss of consciousness)

Persian

2 entries
  • سنکوپ noun (loss of consciousness)
  • غش noun (loss of consciousness)

Polish

2 entries
  • synkopa noun (absence of a sound)
  • synkopa noun (missed beat or off-beat stress)

Portuguese

2 entries
  • síncope noun (absence of a sound)
  • síncope noun (loss of consciousness)

Russian

4 entries
  • о́бморок noun (loss of consciousness)
  • синко́па noun (absence of a sound)
  • синко́па noun (loss of consciousness)
  • синко́па noun (missed beat or off-beat stress)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries
  • fannachadh noun (loss of consciousness)

Spanish

4 entries
  • soponcio noun (loss of consciousness)
  • síncopa noun (absence of a sound)
  • síncopa noun (missed beat or off-beat stress)
  • síncope noun (absence of a sound)

Swedish

2 entries
  • synkop noun (missed beat or off-beat stress)
  • synkope noun (absence of a sound)

Turkish

2 entries
  • bayılma noun (loss of consciousness)
  • senkop noun (loss of consciousness)

Vietnamese

1 entries
  • rụng âm noun (absence of a sound)

Welsh

1 entries
  • rhyngddoriad noun (absence of a sound)

Sample sentences

6 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Polysynthesis is a method of word-building, applicable either to nominals or verbals, which not only employs juxtaposition with aphaeresis, syncope, apocope, etc., but also words, forms of words and significant phonetic elements which have no separate existence apart from such compounds.

Source: tatoeba (12115336)

[…]; on the contrary, all syllables subject in the same way to elision, apocope, syncope, and slurring must have the same degree of stress (i.e. they must be alike unaccented) whether preceded by short or by long root-syllables.

Source: wiktionary

Sometimes, without any apparent cause, I sank, little by little, into a condition of semi-syncope, or half swoon; and, in this condition, without pain, without ability to stir, or, strictly speaking, to think, but with a dull lethargic consciousness of life and of the presence of those who surrounded my bed, I remained, until the crisis of the disease restored me, suddenly, to perfect sensation.

Source: wiktionary

Schneider, the father of rhinology, mentions a woman in whom the odor of orange-flowers produced syncope.

Source: wiktionary

Showing 4 of 6 available sentences.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.