Syncope

Quick meaning: Syncope is a noun meaning (biology, medicine) A loss of consciousness when fainting.

Meaning

(biology, medicine) A loss of consciousness when fainting.

More Meanings

1. (music) A missed beat or off-beat stress in music resulting in syncopation.
2. (linguistics, phonology, prosody) The elision or loss of a sound from the interior of a word, especially of a vowel sound with loss of a syllable.

Example Sentences

[…]the rapidly-whitening face, the miserable fixed smile, meant a syncope within the next few bars.

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

[…]; 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.

She was a volatile creature, full of mischievous surprise: at their first music practice, after playing over some hymns on the pipe-organ, she burst into jazz, filling the quiet grove with the clamorous syncope of Paddy-Paws, a favourite song that summer.

Word Forms

• syncopes

Synonyms for syncope

Depending on context, synonyms include faint, fainting, lipothymia, syncopation.

Antonyms for syncope

Common opposites include epenthesis.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include syncopation, faint, fainting, vasovagal, tussive, apocope.

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