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autoclesis

autoclesis noun: the arousing of interest in something by mentioning it in a negative or dismissive way.

Noun

autoclesis (uncountable)

  1. (rhetoric) The arousing of interest in something by mentioning it in a negative or dismissive way.
    • The author's rhetorical use of autoclesis is loaded.2016, Jeannette Baxter, J.G. Ballard's Surrealist Imagination: Spectacular Authorship

Questions about autoclesis

What does autoclesis mean?
Autoclesis means the arousing of interest in something by mentioning it in a negative or dismissive way.
What part of speech is autoclesis?
Autoclesis is a noun.

Words near autoclesis in the dictionary

  1. autocleavage
  2. autocleave
  3. autocleaved
  4. autocleaves
  5. autocleaving
  6. autoclesis
  7. autoclick
  8. autoclicked
  9. autoclicker
  10. autoclickers
  11. autoclicking

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