paratactical

9.9

A style that links short sentences without using connecting words

adjective
/ˌpærəˈtæktɪkəl/

Specialized

: paratáctico

In her essay, she employed a paratactical style, placing short phrases next to each other without conjunctions.

Examples

But if much of modernism appears hieratic, hypotactical, and formalist, postmodernism strikes us by contrast as playful, paratactical, and deconstructionist.

Academic text (1990)
Its paratactical composition does not suggest a regular, columnar scansion.

Academic text (1990)
The poem's paratactical structure allows the reader to interpret its meaning in multiple ways.
His paratactical writing technique made the text feel disjointed but intriguing.

Synonyms

paratactic

vsparatactical

Specialized

9.9

Short sentences or ideas appear next to each other without connecting words

is the same meaning but uses an alternate adjective form

juxtapositional

vsparatactical

9.0

Put next to each other without a linking word

focuses on clauses and phrases specifically without connectors

How Connected

hypotactic

Specialized

9.9

paratactical

Specialized

9.9

asyndetic

Literature

9.9

Surface Forms

paratactical positive

Morphology

paratactical = paratactic (semi-transparent) = para + taxis + tic + al

The word is formed regularly by adding -al to the technical adjective 'paratactic', but the base term itself is specialized.

Etymology

Paratactical comes from Greek parts para- meaning 'beside' and taxis meaning 'arrangement', the same root you see in syntax. So, paratactical describes a style that puts parts of a sentence 'side by side' without joining words, which makes the writing feel quick and direct.