“It wasn’t some weird deconstruction, but an essentialization,” Mr. Lester recalled.

Strictly speaking, only unisons are æquisonant; but the same property is often allowed to octaves, because, to the common ear, octaves seem but a doubling of the same sound.

For the Legion, we're looking at 20th century futures rather than 19th. Analogies with steampunk might be dieselpunk, atompunk, or rocketpunk – but any Legion of Super-Heroes worthy of the name seems to be as far from the punk aspect as it's possible to get.

To this belong — optation, obtestation, interrogation.