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synchesis

synchesis is the alternative form of synchysis.

Meaning of synchysis

Noun

synchysis (countable and uncountable, plural synchyses)

  1. A complicated, interlocking word-order pattern in early Latin verse, demonstrated by Virgil and his contemporaries.
  2. (rhetoric) Confused arrangement of words in a sentence.
  3. A confused mixture.
  4. Fluidity of the vitreous humour of the eye.

Forms of synchesis

pluralsyncheses

Questions about synchesis

What is synchesis the alternative form of?
Synchesis is the alternative form of synchysis.

Words near synchesis in the dictionary

  1. syncervical
  2. syncervicals
  3. synch
  4. synched
  5. syncheses
  6. synchesis
  7. synchicity
  8. synching
  9. synchiotrophoblast
  10. synchises
  11. synchisis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: synchesis (page history and authors); synchysis (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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