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PARALEIPSIS (paraleipses)

Dictionary entry overview: What does paraleipsis mean?

• PARALEIPSIS (noun)
The noun PARALEIPSIS has 1 sense:

1. suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted

Familiarity information: PARALEIPSIS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• PARALEIPSIS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

paraleipsis; paralepsis; paralipsis; preterition

Hypernyms ("paraleipsis" is a kind of...):

rhetorical device (a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance))

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