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prettygoodwordtmesis (tuh-MEE-sis, TMEE-sis) n., the interpolation of one or more words into the parts of a compound word.
Or sometimes between syllables of a non-compound word -- a form of infix. In English, the result is typically more emphatic than the matrix word: whatsoever instead of just whatever or in-freakin'-credible for incredible, or for an example of insertion not between components of a compound, unbe-fucking-lievably, which yes has been spotted in the wild. While quite as beloved as paralipsis, this is one of my favorite rhetorical tropes. Like most terms of rhetoric, adopted from Greek, where it was a technical term, originally tmḗsis,, literally a cutting.
---L, hot-diggity-hog.
Or sometimes between syllables of a non-compound word -- a form of infix. In English, the result is typically more emphatic than the matrix word: whatsoever instead of just whatever or in-freakin'-credible for incredible, or for an example of insertion not between components of a compound, unbe-fucking-lievably, which yes has been spotted in the wild. While quite as beloved as paralipsis, this is one of my favorite rhetorical tropes. Like most terms of rhetoric, adopted from Greek, where it was a technical term, originally tmḗsis,, literally a cutting.
---L, hot-diggity-hog.
