What does synchysis mean?
Synchysis means (poetry) A complicated, interlocking word-order pattern in early Latin verse, demonstrated by Virgil and his contemporaries..
Synchysis
/ˈsɪn.kə.sɪs/ · noun
Meaning
(poetry) A complicated, interlocking word-order pattern in early Latin verse, demonstrated by Virgil and his contemporaries..
Definitions by Sense
- (poetry) A complicated, interlocking word-order pattern in early Latin verse, demonstrated by Virgil and his contemporaries.
- (rhetoric) Confused arrangement of words in a sentence.
- A confused mixture.
- (ophthalmology) Fluidity of the vitreous humour of the eye.
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Word Forms
- synchyses
- synchesis
- synchisis
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