APA Dictionary of Psychology
parataxis
- n.
- broadly, a lack of integration among components of personality, cognitive style, or emotions. The term is now infrequently used.
- in language, joining syntactic units (e.g., words, phrases) without the use of conjunctions, as in I came; I saw; I conquered.
Updated on 04/19/2018
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