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asyndetically

asyndetically adverb: expressed without conjunctions or with conjunctions purposefully omitted.

Adverb

asyndetically (not comparable)

  1. (rhetoric) Expressed without conjunctions or with conjunctions purposefully omitted.
    • When the temporal clause precedes the main clause, the main clause can be connected asyndetically or by ወ- wa-.2021, Joseph Tropper, Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee, Classical Ethiopic: A Grammar of Gəˁəz § 6.5.5
  2. Demonstrating asyndesis, expressed with a seeming inability or diminished capacity to connect ideas.

Origin of asyndetically

From asyndetic + -ally. Equivalent to a- + syndetically or to asyndesis or asyndeton + -ical + -ly.

Questions about asyndetically

What does asyndetically mean?
Asyndetically means expressed without conjunctions or with conjunctions purposefully omitted.
What part of speech is asyndetically?
Asyndetically is an adverb.

Words near asyndetically in the dictionary

  1. asyncronicity
  2. asyncronous
  3. asyndesis
  4. asyndeta
  5. asyndetic
  6. asyndetically
  7. asyndeton
  8. asyndetons
  9. asynergia
  10. asynergias
  11. asynergic

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