Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In ancient prosody, union of two successive Ionics a minore so that the last syllable of the first and the first syllable of the second interchange quantities: thus, ⌣ ⌣ – ⌣ | – ⌣ – – for ⌣ ⌣ – – | ⌣ ⌣ – –. The syllables representing an Ionic a majore (– – ⌣ ⌣) thus suffer anaclasis, taking the form – ⌣ – ⌣.
- n. In rhetoric, immediate or almost immediate repetition of a word, involving added emphasis. An example of accumulated (fourfold) epizeuxis is:
- n. See palillogy. Also called diplasiasmus.
Wiktionary
- n. Repeating words in immediate succession.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A figure by which a word is repeated with vehemence or emphasis, as in the following lines: -
Examples
“The figure of speech, here, which is known as epizeuxis, is very difficult to do well.”
“Most are not words to slip into casual conversation — Great epizeuxis in your presentation, George!”
“They spelled from the grammars, hyperbole, synecdoche, and epizeuxis.”
“Of the remaining long list of figures, the Irish are particularly disposed to the epizeuxis, as 'indeed, indeed -- at all, at all,' and antanaclasis, or double meaning.”
“And onomatopoeic epizeuxis (say that three times fast!) is often laughable.”
“But the balance here between the two instances of epizeuxis, each in the midst of a more flowing sentence, in a stanza that marks a sharp and emotional turn in the action, is reasonably well done.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘epizeuxis’.
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Prosody
Your terms and additions are welcome.
headless iamb, tailless trochee, dibrach, disyllable, trisyllable, tetrasyllable, pyrrhus, iamb, trochee, choree, choreus, tribrach and 173 more...
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Rhetorical Devices
syllepsis, zeugma, trope, wellerism, anastrophe, anaphora, apostrophe, metonymy, chiasmus, antimetabole, syncope, open-list and 431 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Metawords
Talking about talking, writing about writing, etc.
epizeuxis, tautological, aptote, bibliophagist, parataxis, scriptorium, aposiopesis, variorum, chantefable, boustrophedon, psellism, adoxography and 20 more...
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Rexicon
brazen, insipid, cuss, penchant, salacious, titillate, lurid, schlemiel, interlope, masquerade, supercilious, action-taking and 51 more...
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Lyeneia's Field Journal
footnotes and add-ons from the gap-lands.
limey, apostate, conflagrate, kindle, dispossess, provenience, reckless malice, honking didactica..., consequential exi..., morainal, morae, compass and 28 more...
gangerh Hey! I like this word. Thanks for bringing it to me, pter'.
Don't know how it's spoken, though.
Perhaps somewordnik would do a pronunciation or two, or three. Jan 8, 2012
pterodactyl
Examples here.
I love, love, love this word! Jan 8, 2012
jmjarmstrong JM and epizeuxis, epizeuxis, all all epizeuxis. Epizeuxis as a single status update. Mar 28, 2011
epeolatrist (n) A figure by which a word is repeated with vehemence or emphasis Feb 6, 2009
jmjarmstrong JM declares that epizeuxis and only epizeuxis can result in true epizeuxis or a condition approaching epizeuxis or approximating epizeuxis Feb 6, 2009