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

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
Florence Scovel Shinn