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Syllepses vs Syllepsis - What's the difference?

syllepses | syllepsis |

As nouns the difference between syllepses and syllepsis

is that syllepses is while syllepsis is (rhetoric) a figure of speech in which one word simultaneously modifies two or more other words such that the modification must be understood differently with respect to each modified word; often causing humorous incongruity.

syllepses

English

Noun

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    syllepsis

    English

    Noun

  • (rhetoric) A figure of speech in which one word simultaneously modifies two or more other words such that the modification must be understood differently with respect to each modified word; often causing humorous incongruity
  • (botany) Growth in which lateral branches develop from a lateral meristem, without the formation of a bud or period of dormancy, when the lateral meristem is split from a terminal meristem.

    • Antonyms

    * (botany) prolepsis

    Coordinate terms

    * (rhetoric) zeugma

    Hypernyms

    * (rhetoric) brachylogy

    Related terms

    * sylleptic

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