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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

synchesis en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable) Alternative form of synchysis.
    alt of synchysis
    • Similar to tmesis is synchesis or the total jumbling of word order in an expression. Both tmesis and synchesis are necessary in poetry because they facilitate the poet's composition of particular rhythms and meters. 1996, William Michael Purcell, Ars Poetriae, page 28:

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