PARATAXIS
- The juxtaposition of clauses or phrases without the use of coordinating or subordinating conjunctions, as It was cold; the snows came.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In grammar, the ranging of propositions one after another without connectives, as the corresponding judgments present themselves to the mind without marking their dependence or relations on each other by way of consequence or the like. It is opposed to syntax and hypotaxis.
Wiktionary
- n. Speech or writing in which clauses or phrases are placed together without being separated by conjunctions, for example "I came; I saw; I conquered".
- n. The juxtaposition of two images or fragments, usually starkly dissimilar, without a clear connection
- n. In Greek political system: coalition, "partisan camp"
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The mere ranging of propositions one after another, without indicating their connection or interdependence; -- opposed to syntax.
Etymologies
- Greek, a placing side by side, from paratassein, to arrange side by side : para-,beside; see para-1 + tassein, tag-, to arrange.
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