As nouns the difference between terms and cacosyntheton
is that terms is while cacosyntheton is (rhetoric) the poor placement of words.
terms
English
Noun
(head)
Statistics
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cacosyntheton
English
Noun
(-)
(rhetoric) The poor placement of words.
References
* Cacosyntheton , from Silva Rhetoricae [http://rhetoric.byu.edu/Figures/C/cacosyntheton.htm]