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ellipsis
📅 Updated:2025-01-23
🕒 Created:2011-07-14
🆔 ID:2262
Description
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis
An ellipsis (denoted as ...) usually indicates an intentional omission of a word, sentence, or whole section from a text without altering its original meaning. Depending on their context and placement in a sentence, ellipses can also indicate an unfinished thought, a slight pause, and nervous or awkward silence.
Aposiopesis is the use of an ellipsis to trail off into silence. For example: "But I thought he was..."
When placed at the beginning or end of a sentence, the ellipsis can also inspire a feeling of melancholy, longing, or a delay before speaking.
For tagging purposes, this may be tagged for series of three or more periods.
It could be also added with Alt+0133.
It could be also added with Alt+0133.
Ellipsis forms
- emphatic_ellipsis (...!)
- interrobang_ellipsis (...?!)
- questioning_ellipsis (...?)
- trailing_ellipsis - Unused. This term should be easier to remember than aposiopesis.
- vertical_ellipsis
