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PARISOLOGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does parisology mean? 

PARISOLOGY (noun)
  The noun PARISOLOGY has 1 sense:

1. the use of ambiguous wordsplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


PARISOLOGY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The use of ambiguous words

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

ambiguity (an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context)


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