homeoteleuton

Meaning

Noun

  • The repetition of endings in words; near rhyme.
  • The accidental omission, when copying a text, of a passage between repeated words or phrases, as the eye skips from one to the next without noticing the words between.

Origin

  • Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὁμοιοτέλευτον ("like ending").

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