syncope
Brief consciousness loss
Syncope is a temporary loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood flow to the brain—what's commonly called fainting or passing out: The patient experienced syncope after standing up too quickly.
In linguistics and music, syncope refers to the omission of sounds or beats from the middle of a word or phrase, as when "never" becomes "ne'er."
Weak and indistinct
- unconsciousnessComplete lack of awareness
- blackoutComplete power loss
- vasovagalVagus-nerve-mediated reflex
- collapseSudden structural failure
lightheadedness · dizziness · hypotension · vertigo · pallor · swoon · fainting spell · loss of consciousness
Dropped sounds in speech
- contractionReduction in size
- deletionRemoval of content
- omissionFailure to include
- reductionMaking something smaller
truncation · schwa · metathesis · assimilation · syllable · unstressed · clipping · pronunciation
faint
Weak and indistinct
- unconsciousnessComplete lack of awareness
- blackoutComplete power loss
- vasovagalVagus-nerve-mediated reflex
collapse · lightheadedness · dizziness · hypotension · vertigo · pallor · swoon · fainting spell · loss of consciousness · seizure
elision
Dropped sounds in speech
- contractionReduction in size
- deletionRemoval of content
- omissionFailure to include
reduction · truncation · schwa · metathesis · assimilation · syllable · unstressed · clipping · pronunciation · weakening
offbeat
Pleasantly strange or unusual
- accentRegional speech pattern
- anticipationState of awaiting something
- displacementRemoval from usual location
backbeat · groove · swing · ragtime · jazz · funk · pulse · meter · upbeat · downbeat
- symptomsfever, headache, pain, nausea, rash
- sudden eventsexplosion, earthquake, lightning strike, tornado, heart attack
- blackoutspower outage, power failure, power cut, outage, total blackout
- linguistic termsacronym, anagram, antonym, synonym, homonym
- Aging Problemsdementia, Alzheimer's, osteoporosis, arthritis, falls
- dizzinessdizziness, dizzy spell, lightheadedness, vertigo, wooziness
syncopeconsciousness
State of sentient awareness
wakefulness · alertness · awareness · lucidity · arousal
syncopation, syncopated, syncopate, syncopating, syncopations, syncopates