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adnomination

adnomination noun: a form of wordplay in which phonetically similar words are juxtaposed.

Noun

adnomination (countable and uncountable, plural adnominations)

  1. A form of wordplay in which phonetically similar words are juxtaposed.
    • The flurry of adnomination (varying a "root" term with prefixes and suffixes, as "luminous," by a kind of home etymology, is turned into "voluminous") — this flurry of punning settles into a joke out of a farce...1994, Mary Kinzie, The judge is fury: dislocation and form in poetry, page 138
    • Characteristically, a rhetorical figure called “adnomination” is used, which repeats noun root in verb root or vice versa (for ex . “passing without passport” or “Slaves of the bourgeois class, daily and hourly enslaved”) .2013, Darko Suvin, In Leviathan's Belly: Essays for a Counter-Revolutionary Time, →ISBN

Forms of adnomination

pluraladnominations

Origin of adnomination

From Latin ad nōmen + -tion.

Questions about adnomination

What does adnomination mean?
Adnomination means a form of wordplay in which phonetically similar words are juxtaposed.
What part of speech is adnomination?
Adnomination is a noun.
What is the plural of adnomination?
The plural of adnomination is adnominations.

Words near adnomination in the dictionary

  1. adnominalizes
  2. adnominalizing
  3. adnominally
  4. adnominals
  5. adnominatio
  6. adnomination
  7. adnominations
  8. adnoun
  9. adnouns
  10. Adnyamathanha
  11. ado

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