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Word: Asyndeton
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
mid 16th century: modern Latin, from Greek asundeton, neuter of asundetos ‘unconnected’, from a- ‘not’ + sundetos ‘bound together’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
əˈsɪndɪt(ə)n
Dialects: British English
Definition:
the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence, as in I came, I saw, I conquered
Short Definition:omission or absence of conjunction between parts of sentence
Examples:- syntactically unmarked but semantically connected asyndeta
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