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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ANTIPHRASIS

Via Late Latin from Greek, from anti- + phrasis, from phrazein to speak.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ANTIPHRASIS

antiphrasis  [ænˈtɪfrəsɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ANTIPHRASIS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Antiphrasis is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ANTIPHRASIS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

antiphrasis

Irony

Irony (from Ancient Greek εἰρωνεία (eirōneía), meaning "dissimulation, feigned ignorance"), in its broadest sense, is a rhetorical device, literary technique, or event characterized by an incongruity, or contrast, between what the expectations of a situation are and what is really the case, with a third element, that defines that what is really the case is ironic because of the situation that led to it. Irony may be divided into categories such as: verbal, dramatic, and situational. Verbal, dramatic, and situational irony are often used for emphasis in the assertion of a truth. The ironic form of simile, used in sarcasm, and some forms of litotes can emphasize one's meaning by the deliberate use of language which states the opposite of the truth, denies the contrary of the truth, or drastically and obviously understates a factual connection. Other forms, as identified by historian Connop Thirlwall, include dialectic and practical irony.

Definition of antiphrasis in the English dictionary

The definition of antiphrasis in the dictionary is the use of a word in a sense opposite to its normal one, esp for ironic effect.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ANTIPHRASIS


amebiasis
əmiːˈbaɪəsɪs
anabasis
əˈnæbəsɪs
candidiasis
ˌkændɪˈdaɪəsɪs
diocese
ˈdaɪəsɪs
ekphrasis
ˈekfrəsɪs
elephantiasis
ˌɛlɪfənˈtaɪəsɪs
embryogenesis
ˌɛmbrɪəʊˈdʒɛnəsɪs
emphasis
ˈɛmfəsɪs
epistasis
ɪˈpɪstəsɪs
giardiasis
ˌdʒaɪɑːˈdaɪəsɪs
merisis
ˈmɛrəsɪs
metamorphosis
ˌmɛtəˈmɔːfəsɪs
metaphrasis
mɛˈtæfrəsɪs
metastasis
mɪˈtæstəsɪs
metathesis
mɪˈtæθəsɪs
periphrasis
pəˈrɪfrəsɪs
psoriasis
səˈraɪəsɪs
transgenesis
trænzˈdʒɛnəsɪs
trypanosomiasis
ˌtrɪpənəsəˈmaɪəsɪs
urolithiasis
ˌjʊərəʊlɪˈθaɪəsɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ANTIPHRASIS

antiphlogistic
antiphon
antiphonal
antiphonally
antiphonaries
antiphonary
antiphoner
antiphonic
antiphonical
antiphonically
antiphonies
antiphony
antiphrastic
antiphrastical
antipiracy
antiplague
antiplaque
antipleasure
antipoaching
antipodal

WORDS THAT END LIKE ANTIPHRASIS

amoebiasis
anastasis
ascariasis
basis
crasis
filariasis
haemostasis
helminthiasis
hemostasis
homeostasis
hypochondriasis
leishmaniasis
mydriasis
oasis
onchocerciasis
overemphasis
schistosomiasis
stasis
strongyloidiasis
trial basis

Synonyms and antonyms of antiphrasis in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «antiphrasis» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ANTIPHRASIS

Find out the translation of antiphrasis to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of antiphrasis from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «antiphrasis» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

antiphrasis
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

antífrasis
570 millions of speakers

English

antiphrasis
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

antiphrasis
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

antiphrasis
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

antiphrasis
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

antiphrasis
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

antiphrasis
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

antiphrase
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Antiphrasis
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Antiphrase
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

antiphrasis
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

antiphrasis
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Antiphrasis
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

antiphrasis
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

antiphrasis
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अँटीफेसिस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

zıt anlam kullanma
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

antifrasi
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

antiphrasis
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

antiphrasis
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

antiphrasis
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

την αντίφαση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

antiphrasis
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

antiphrasis
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

antiphrasis
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of antiphrasis

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ANTIPHRASIS»

The term «antiphrasis» is used very little and occupies the 157.742 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ANTIPHRASIS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «antiphrasis» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «antiphrasis» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about antiphrasis

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANTIPHRASIS»

Discover the use of antiphrasis in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to antiphrasis and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Dictionary of Literary Devices: Gradus, A-Z
Antithesis irony exists in the tone of an utterance, whereas antiphrasis is rendered obvious by context and situation. For the distinction between irony of utterance and irony of situation, studied by Muecke, Booth, and others, see irony* .
Bernard Marie Dupriez, Albert W. Halsall, 1991
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Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of Women: Reading ...
1993), 35 49, who relates the term 'antygrafe' to 'antiphrasis' found in the Cite, 624. This view is not tenable, however, since the two words arc not coterminous. ' Antygrafe' refers to a practice of writing whilst 'antiphrasis' refers to a rhctorical ...
Rosalind Brown-Grant, 2003
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Linguistics and Psychoanalysis: Freud, Saussure, Hjelmslev, ...
Thus: "reward for punishment (both euphemism and antiphrasis, M.A.); poison for food (a strange euphemism but one in which, partially at least, antiphrasis is still present, M.A.); ungodly for saintly (another strange euphemism, but this time the ...
Michel Arrivé, 1992
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Rhetorical Style: The Uses of Language in Persuasion
Picking up on this distinction, Renaissance manuals typically listed one device among the “tropes of words” under the label antiphrasis and another among “ tropes of sentences” as the figure ironia (e.g., Susenbrotus 1953, 12, 14).11 ...
Jeanne Fahnestock, 2011
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War, Memory, and the Politics of Humor: The Canard Enchaine ...
The similarity of de la Fouchardiere's political positions and Scize's meant that the direct discourse of indignation could carry much the same ideological freight as that of antiphrasis. Declamatory prose a la Seize and Dorgeles was used not so ...
Allen Douglas, 2002
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Allegory and Violence
enough to become polysemy, and total noncoincidence is constrained just enough to become antiphrasis, such that the two form a net or a grid, each alternately passing under the other to assert itself as the more fundamental. Polysemy will try ...
Gordon Teskey, 1996
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Divine Madness: On Interpreting Literature, Music, and the ...
TM When it comes to contradiction, antiphrasis, and antithesis, the etymology is clearer. Dictionis (Latin) means "utterance," phrasis (Greek) means approximately "expression," and thesis (Greek) means "arrangement" (of statements).
Lars Elleström, 2002
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Tropologia: A Key, to Open Scripture Metaphors, in Four ...
significal- This trope may more rightly be called Antiphrasis, which uses words contrary to their proper meaning, or original and genuine sense ; lemma sermo per contrarium intelligendus, cs: W" contra, et opaQw dico. It may be distinguished ...
Benjamin Keach, Thomas De Laune, 1856
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GTropología: a key to open Scripture metaphors [by B. Keach ...
This trope may more rightly bo called Antiphrasis, which uses words contrary to their proper meaning, or original and genuine sense ; anritysuris, sermo per contrarium intelligendus, ex tan contra, et tyxfy dico. It may be distinguished into, 1.
Benjamin Keach, 1858
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The Impact: The Art of Communicating Eloquently
Antiphrasis is used to bring attention to an idea through the use of words in humorous or sarcastic way to present an opposite meaning than the generally accepted implication. It creates the rhetorical impact by making the subject to take efforts ...
Anshuman Sharma, 2014

7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ANTIPHRASIS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term antiphrasis is used in the context of the following news items.
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Tracking your digital footprint
Accessibility is the antiphrasis of security. It's always easier to control your infrastructure than it is to influence your people. Uniform policies that ... «Channel3000.com - WISC-TV3, Jun 15»
2
The Master and Miri Regev
... and Israeli culture may find out that these were days of flourishing and blossoming of a genre that has so far not been popular – antiphrasis. «Haaretz, Jun 15»
3
Congressman Rice says Obama's budget won't address the majority …
“Growing government is the antiphrasis of that. Growing federal programs, all that does is trap more people in poverty... The only way to lift ... «MyrtleBeachOnline.com, Feb 15»
4
What's left for the left?
And worse, these measures have been given the name of “responsibility pact”, a contemptible antiphrasis that absolves capital of all responsibility. So we must ... «Le Monde Diplomatique, Aug 14»
5
Alabama State's 'Ghost' slims down to 353 pounds
And his nickname, "Ghost," may be the definitive use of antiphrasis in acknowledging the largest guy on Alabama State's team. Roderick ... «Montgomery Advertiser, Aug 14»
6
Interview: McLaren's Middle East Boss On Why Business Is Booming
“My favourite car back in the garage in the UK is the complete antiphrasis of a McLaren, and that's a Morgan. It's ancient technology, like driving ... «Gulf Business News, Jul 14»
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Critique of Impure Reason
Cornelius Castoriadis once said that the New Philosophers had been named by an act of double antiphrasis. BHL has enjoyed media ... «Inside Higher Ed, Feb 10»

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