hysteron proteron

• POS: Noun Phrase
• HYPHEN: hys=ter=on prot=er=on

CIDE DICTIONARY

hysteron proteron,  [NL., fr. Gr. "y`steros the latter, following + pro`teros before, others, sooner.].

 A figure in which the natural order of sense is reversed; hysterology; as, valet atque vivit, “he is well and lives.”  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

hysteron proteron, n. Rhet. a figure of speech in which what should come last is put first; an inversion of the natural order (e.g. I die! I faint! I fail!).

Etymology

LL f. Gk husteron proteron the latter (put in place of) the former

THESAURUS

hysteron proteron

anastrophe, argument, argument by analogy, argumentum ad baculum, argumentum ad captandum, argumentum ad hominem, arsy-varsiness, bad case, begging the question, chiasmus, circular argument, claptrap, clutter, crowd-pleasing argument, empty words, fallacy, farrago, formal fallacy, hash, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hodgepodge, hypallage, hyperbaton, insincere argument, jumble, litter, logical fallacy, material fallacy, mere rhetoric, mess, metastasis, metathesis, mishmash, moonshine, non sequitur, palindrome, paralogism, parenthesis, petitio principii, philosophism, pseudosyllogism, scramble, solecism, sophism, sophistry, synchysis, tmesis, topsy-turviness, topsy-turvydom, tumble, turmoil, unholy mess, verbal fallacy, weak point, welter

ROGET THESAURUS

hysteron proteron

Disorder

N disorder, derangement, irregularity, anomaly, anarchy, anarchism, want of method, untidiness, disunion, discord, confusion, confusedness, mishmash, mix, disarray, jumble, huddle, litter, lumber, cahotage, farrago, mess, mash, muddle, muss, hash, hodgepodge, hotch-potch, hotch-pot, imbroglio, chaos, omnium gatherum, medley, mere mixture, fortuitous concourse of atoms, disjecta membra, rudis indigestaque moles, complexity, turmoil, ferment, to-do, trouble, pudder, pother, row, rumble, disturbance, hubbub, convulsion, tumult, uproar, revolution, riot, rumpus, stour, scramble, brawl, fracas, rhubarb, fight, free-for-all, row, ruction, rumpus, embroilment, melee, spill and pelt, rough and tumble, whirlwind, bear garden, Babel, Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, confusion worse confounded, most admired disorder, concordia discors, Bedlam, all hell broke loose, bull in a china shop, all the fat in the fire, diable a' quatre, Devil to pay, pretty kettle of fish, pretty piece of work, pretty piece of business, disorderly person, disorderly persons offence, misdemeanor, slattern, slut (libertine), disorderly, orderless, out of order, out of place, out of gear, irregular, desultory, anomalous, acephalous, deranged, aimless, disorganized, straggling, unmethodical, immethodical, unsymmetric, unsystematic, untidy, slovenly, dislocated, out of sorts, promiscuous, indiscriminate, chaotic, anarchical, unarranged &c (arrange), confused, deranged, topsy-turvy, shapeless, disjointed, out of joint, troublous, riotous, complex, irregularly, by fits, by fits and snatches, by fits and starts, pellmell, higgledy-piggledy, helter-skelter, harum-scarum, in a ferment, at sixes and sevens, at cross-purposes, upside down, the cart before the horse, hysteron proteron, chaos is come again, the wreck of matter and the crush of worlds.

Inversion

N inversion, eversion, subversion, reversion, retroversion, introversion, contraposition, contrariety, reversal, turn of the tide, overturn, somersault, somerset, summerset, culbute, revulsion, pirouette, transposition, transposal, anastrophy, metastasis, hyperbaton, anastrophe, hysteron proteron, hypallage, synchysis, tmesis, parenthesis, metathesis, palindrome, pronation and supination, inverted, wrong side out, wrong side up, inside out, upside down, bottom upwards, keel upwards, supine, on one's head, topsy-turvy, sens dessus dessous, inverse, reverse, opposite, top heavy, inversely, hirdy-girdy, heels over head, head over heels.