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anoiconometon

anoiconometon noun: want of proper arrangement; a figure in which words are confused and set without order.

Noun

anoiconometon (uncountable)

  1. (rhetoric) Want of proper arrangement; a figure in which words are confused and set without order.
    • Anoiconometon ... when there is no good disposition of the words, but all are confused up and down and set without order.1593, Henry Peacham, The Garden of Eloquence

Origin of anoiconometon

From Ancient Greek ἀνοικονόμητον (anoikonómēton, “not set in order, without arrangement”), from ἀν- (an-, “not”) + οἰκονομέω (oikonoméō, “to arrange, manage”).

Questions about anoiconometon

What does anoiconometon mean?
Anoiconometon means want of proper arrangement; a figure in which words are confused and set without order.
What part of speech is anoiconometon?
Anoiconometon is a noun.

Words near anoiconometon in the dictionary

  1. anofinic acid
  2. anogenic
  3. anogenital
  4. anogenitally
  5. anoia
  6. anoiconometon
  7. anoikic
  8. anoikis
  9. anoikism
  10. anoil
  11. anoiled

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