Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In rhetoric, a figure of speech consisting in expression of an idea by negation of its contrary, or by use of a word of opposite meaning.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Rhet.) A figure of speech by which what is to be understood affirmatively is stated negatively, and the contrary; affirmation by contraries.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun rhetoric A
figure of speech by which what is to be understoodaffirmatively is statednegatively , andvice versa ;affirmation bycontraries .
Etymologies
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From Ancient Greek ἐναντίος ("contradiction").
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kanenas commented on the word enantiosis
All these lovely words make me wish I had studied rhetoric.
April 3, 2009
vanishedone commented on the word enantiosis
Now I'm wondering whether you really mean that...
(O.E.D. definition for this word: 'a figure of speech in which the opposite is meant to what is said; irony.')
April 3, 2009