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Anacrusis vs Anacusis - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between anacrusis and anacusis

is that anacrusis is (prosody) an unstressed syllable at the start of a verse while anacusis is (medicine) total deafness.

anacrusis

Noun

(anacruses)
  • (prosody) An unstressed syllable at the start of a verse.
  • (music) An unstressed note or notes before the first strong beat (or downbeat) of a phrase.
  • * 1989 , (Anthony Burgess), Any Old Iron :
  • Then Etheridge poised his baton, jerked an upbeat, and made the violinists speak the low G and A of their anacrusis .

    anacusis

    English

    Noun

  • (medicine) Total deafness.