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hypercatalexis

[hahy-per-kat-l-ek-sis]

noun

Prosody.

plural

hypercatalexes 

  1. the addition of one or more syllables after the final foot in a line of verse.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of hypercatalexis1

First recorded in 1885–1890; hypercatalectic, -sis

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