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noun
A complicated, interlocking word-order pattern in early Latin verse, demonstrated by Virgil and his contemporaries.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: communications, journalism, literature, media, poetry, publishing, writing
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noun
Confused arrangement of words in a sentence.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, rhetoric, uncountable
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noun
A confused mixture.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Fluidity of the vitreous humour of the eye.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, ophthalmology, sciences
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History
Borrowed from Latin synchysis, from Ancient Greek σύγχυσις (súnkhusis, “a mixing”).
Across languages
6 source translations are retained for this English entry.
