Associations to the word «Syncope»

Wiktionary

SYNCOPE, noun. A loss of consciousness when someone faints, a swoon.
SYNCOPE, noun. (prosody) (phonology) The absence of a sound from the interior of a word, for example by changing cannot to can't or the pronunciation of placenames in -cester (e.g. Leicester) as -ster.
SYNCOPE, noun. A missed beat or off-beat stress in music resulting in syncopation.

Dictionary definition

SYNCOPE, noun. A spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain.
SYNCOPE, noun. (phonology) the loss of sounds from within a word (as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle').

Wise words

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley