From Latin asyndeton, from Ancient Greek ἀσύνδετον (asúndeton), from ἀ- (a-, “a-, un-, non-”) and the neuter substantive of σῠ́νδετος (sŭ́ndetos, “bound, joined”), from συνδεῖν (sundeîn, “to join, to bind”), from σῠν- (sŭn-, “together”) + δεῖν (deîn, “to bind, to tie”). Equivalent to a- +‎ syndeton.

• IPA^(key): /əˈsɪndətən/, /æ-/, /eɪ-/

Examples (rhetoric)
...that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth... –Abraham Lincoln

asyndeton (countable and uncountable, plural asyndetons or asyndeta)

1. (grammar, rhetoric) Omission of conjunctions, especially for rhetorical effect.
   • 1589, George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie, page 145:

     Asyndeton, or the Loose language... as thus. I saw it, I said it, I will sweare it.

   • 1740, Benjamin Martin, Bibliotheca Technologica, 2nd edition, page 145:

     Asyndeton the Cop'latives denies. Faith, Justice, Truth, Religion, Mercy dies.

   • 1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Figures.] Asyndeton.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric,[…], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White,[…], →OCLC, page 50:

     Asyndeton the copulative denies;
     And sometimes haste and rage sometimes implies.

• dissolutio, asyndesis, asyndetism

• brachylogy

• syndeton, polysyndeton

• articulus

• nonsteady

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀσύνδετον (asúndeton, “unconnected”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈasɪndɛton]

asyndeton n

1. asyndeton

From Ancient Greek ἀσύνδετον (asúndeton).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈsyn.dɛ.tɔn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈs̬in.de.ton]

asyndeton n (genitive asyndetī); second declension

1. (rhetoric) asyndeton

Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).

• (Pure Latin) dissolūtiō

asyndeton

1. inflection of asyndetos:
   1. accusative masculine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular

• “asyndeton”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “asyndeton”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀσύνδετον (asúndeton).

• IPA^(key): /a.sɘnˈdɛ.tɔn/

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• Rhymes: -ɛtɔn
• Syllabification: a‧syn‧de‧ton

asyndeton m inan

1. (rhetoric, grammar) asyndeton

   Synonym: polisyndeton

• asyndeton in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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