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

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke