synchysis
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Etymology
Through Latin from the Ancient Greek σύγχυσις (súnkhusis, “a mixing”).
Pronunciation
Noun
synchysis (countable and uncountable, plural synchyses)
- (poetics) A complicated, interlocking word-order pattern in early Latin verse, demonstrated by Virgil and his contemporaries.
- (rhetoric) Confused arrangement of words in a sentence
- A confused mixture.
- Fluidity of the vitreous humour of the eye.