Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The juxtaposition of clauses or phrases without the use of coordinating or subordinating conjunctions, as It was cold; the snows came.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun 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.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Gram.) The mere ranging of propositions one after another, without indicating their connection or interdependence; -- opposed to syntax.

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  • noun grammar Speech or writing in which clauses or phrases are placed together without being separated by conjunctions, for example "I came; I saw; I conquered".
  • noun literature The juxtaposition of two images or fragments, usually starkly dissimilar, without a clear connection
  • noun politics In Greek political system: coalition, "partisan camp"

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Greek, a placing side by side, from paratassein, to arrange side by side : para-, beside; see para– + tassein, tag-, to arrange.]

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From Ancient Greek παράταξις (parátaxis, "placement side by side"), from παρα- + τάξις ("taxis").

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  • A little word trips, hampers, attacks us.

    Resist; adopt a disciplined practice.

    Conjunctivitis

    Never will blight us,

    Defended by sharp paralaxis.

    July 2, 2017