Definitions for asyndeton

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asyndeton a·syn·de·ton

Spelling: [uh-sin-di-ton, -tuh n]

IPA: /əˈsɪn dɪˌtɒn, -tən/

Asyndeton is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 449 anagrams from letters in asyndeton (adennosty).

Definitions for asyndeton

noun

1. Rhetoric. the omission of conjunctions, as in “He has provided the poor with jobs, with opportunity, with self-respect.”.
2. Library Science. the omission of cross references, especially from a catalog.

Origin of asyndeton

1580-90; Latin Greek, noun use of neuter of asýndetos not linked (a- a-⁶ + syndé(ein) to link + -tos verbid suffix)

Examples for asyndeton

But the asyndeton (so characteristic of the fourth Gospel) proving uncongenial to certain of old time, D inserted και.

And this is what Homer has expressed by using the figure asyndeton.

Of this sort is asyndeton when the conjunctions uniting sentences are removed.

The asyndeton in this distich is odd, given the preceding series of connectives.

But the asyndeton resulting from the suppression of these words was felt to be intolerable.