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adv
In an asyndetic way.
Expressed without conjunctions or with conjunctions purposefully omitted.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, rhetoric
Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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adv
In an asyndetic way.
Demonstrating asyndesis, expressed with a seeming inability or diminished capacity to connect ideas.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: human-sciences, psychology, sciences
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History
From asyndetic + -ally. Equivalent to a- + syndetically or to asyndesis or asyndeton + -ical + -ly.
Across languages
2 source translations are retained for this English entry.
