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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
anaptyxis /ˌanəpˈtɪksɪs/

▶noun Phonetics the insertion of a vowel between two consonants to aid pronunciation, as in he went thataway.

– derivatives
anaptyctic adjective.

– origin C19: mod. L., from Gk anaptuxis ‘unfolding’.

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