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APOPHASIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does apophasis mean?
• APOPHASIS (noun)
The noun APOPHASIS has 1 sense:
1. mentioning something by saying it will not be mentioned
Familiarity information: APOPHASIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Mentioning something by saying it will not be mentioned
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("apophasis" is a kind of...):
rhetorical device (a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance))
Derivation:
apophatic (of or relating to the belief that God can be known to humans only in terms of what He is not (such as 'God is unknowable'))
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