Usually means: Arrangement of clauses in subordination.
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▸ noun:  (grammar) Syntactic subordination of one clause or construction to another.

Similar:
para-hypotaxis, syntaxis, subconjunction, subordinator, apposition, subordinate clause, inverse attraction, hypozeuxis, catataxis, noun clause, more...

Opposite:
parataxis, coordination, asyndeton

Adjectives:
essential, causal, more, syntactical, complex

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Similar:
para-hypotaxis, syntaxis, subconjunction, subordinator, apposition, subordinate clause, inverse attraction, hypozeuxis, catataxis, noun clause, more...

Opposite:
parataxis, coordination, asyndeton

Adjectives:
essential, causal, more, syntactical, complex



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