— asyndetic /as"in det"ik/ , adj. — asyndetically , adv.
/euh sin"di ton', -teuhn/ , n.
1. Rhet. the omission of conjunctions, as in "He has provided the poor with jobs, with opportunity, with self-respect."
2. Library Science. the omission of cross references, esp. from a catalog.
[ 1580-90; asýndetos not linked ( a- A- 6 + syndé ( ein ) to link + -tos verbid suffix) ]