synchysis

Meaning

Noun

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

Origin

  • Through Latin from the Ancient Greek σύγχυσις ("a mixing").

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