Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In rhetoric: The use of a word or words twice in the same context; repetition, especially for the sake of emphasis. Unnecessary or ill-judged dilogy results in tautology (which see).
- noun Intentional use of an ambiguous expression; the word or expression so used. Ambiguity in a wider sense is called
amphiboly or amphibology.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Rhet.), rare An ambiguous speech; a figure in which a word is used an equivocal sense.
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- noun
Ambiguous orequivocal speech ordiscourse . - noun
Repetition of a word or phrase. - noun A series of two related works
Etymologies
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From Latin dilogia, from Ancient Greek διλογία (dilogía, "repetition"), from δίς (dís, "twice") + -λογία (-logía, "-logy")
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whichbe commented on the word dilogy
Intentional ambiguousness. (from Phrontistery)
May 25, 2008
jmjarmstrong commented on the word dilogy
JM is aiming to restrict his dilogy in a diligent and intentional (good) manner.
October 18, 2010