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timesis

timesis is the alternative spelling of tmesis.

Meaning of tmesis

Noun

tmesis (countable and uncountable, plural tmeses)

  1. (rhetoric) The insertion of one or more words between the components of a compound word.
    Synonyms:
    diacope

Questions about timesis

What is timesis the alternative spelling of?
Timesis is the alternative spelling of tmesis.

Words near timesis in the dictionary

  1. timeships
  2. Timesian
  3. timesing
  4. timesink
  5. timesinks
  6. timesis
  7. timeskip
  8. timeskips
  9. timeslice
  10. timeslices
  11. timeslip

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Adapted from Wiktionary: timesis (page history and authors); tmesis (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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