Associations to the word «Asyndeton»

Wiktionary

ASYNDETON, noun. (rhetoric) A stylistic scheme in which conjunctions are deliberately omitted from a series of words, phrases, clauses.

Dictionary definition

ASYNDETON, noun. The omission of conjunctions where they would normally be used.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky