prolepsis
Meaning of prolepsis
noun
- The assignment of something to a period of time that precedes it.
- The anticipation of an objection to an argument.
- (grammar) A construction that consists of placing an element in a syntactic unit before that to which it would logically correspond.
- A so-called "preconception", i.e. a pre-theoretical notion which can lead to true knowledge of the world.
- Growth in which lateral branches develop from a lateral meristem, after the formation of a bud or following a period of dormancy, when the lateral meristem is split from a terminal meristem.
- (authorship) The practice of placing information about the ending of a story near the beginning, as a literary device.
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CatalanHyphenation of prolepsis
pro-lep-sis
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- prolepsis is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
prolepsis synonyms
Meaning :
procatalepsis, anachronism, flashforward, foreshadowing
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Words that rhyme with prolepsis
psis, Synapsis, apoapsis, apsis, asynapsis, desynapsis, metasynapsis, mitapsis, parapsis, parasynapsis, periapsis, presynapsis, synapsis, telosynapsis, zoothapsis, aeroscepsis, amnioclepsis, analepsis, antilepsis, antisepsis, arteriostrepsis, arteriotrepsis, asepsis, catalepsis, colisepsis, encephalosepsis, endosepsis, enterosepsis, epanalepsis, exosepsis, hematosepsis, menosepsis, metalepsis, metapepsis, monoblepsis, monolepsis, omphaloskepsis, parablepsis, paralepsis, pepsis, phlebostrepsis, procatalepsis, proteopepsis, pseudoblepsis, sarcosepsis, scepsis, sepsis, skepsis, stomatosepsis, strepsis
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