asyndeton

1. (rhetoric) A stylistic scheme in which conjunctions are deliberately omitted from a series of words, phrases, clauses.
   • [1835, L[arret] Langley, A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster: Printed by C. White, Baxter-Gate, OCLC 1062248511 ↗, page 50 ↗:

     Asyndeton the copulative denies;
     And sometimes haste and rage sometimes implies.]

• syndeton
• polysyndeton
• asyndetic
• syndetic

• French: asyndète
• German: Asyndeton
• Italian: asindeto
• Portuguese: assíndeto
• Spanish: asíndeton