anoiconometon

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noun

Want of proper arrangement; a figure in which words are confused and set without order.

OriginAncient Greek ἀνοικονόμητον →
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Meanings

nounanoiconometon (uncountable)
  1. rhetoricuncountableWant of proper arrangement; a figure in which words are confused and set without order.

    Anoiconometon ... when there is no good disposition of the words, but all are confused up and down and set without order.

    1593, Henry Peacham, The Garden of Eloquence

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekἀνοικονόμητον“not set in order, without arrangement”
  2. Englishanoiconometon

From Ancient Greek ἀνοικονόμητον (anoikonómēton, “not set in order, without arrangement”), from ἀν- (an-, “not”) + οἰκονομέω (oikonoméō, “to arrange, manage”).

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APA

anoiconometon. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anoiconometon

MLA

“anoiconometon.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anoiconometon. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “anoiconometon,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anoiconometon.

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