dilogy
/ˈdɪləd͡ʒi/
dilogy noun: ambiguous or equivocal speech or discourse.
Noun
dilogy (countable and uncountable, plural dilogies)
- Ambiguous or equivocal speech or discourse.
- Repetition of a word or phrase.
- A series of two related works.
- why tragedy took the form of a trilogy — not a dilogy, tetralogy, or single drama1885, The Journal of Hellenic studies: Volume 6, page 167
- another school of thought, for which Purphoros is a mirage, a mere doublet of Purkaeus, and there were never more than two linked Prometheus plays -- as it were a dilogy1983, Reginald Pepys Winnington-Ingram, Studies in Aeschylus, page 189
- Synonyms:
- duology
Synonyms of dilogy
Forms of dilogy
| plural | dilogies |
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Origin of dilogy
From Latin dilogia, from Ancient Greek διλογία (dilogía, “repetition”), from δίς (dís, “twice”) + -λογία (-logía, “-logy”).
Questions about dilogy
- What does dilogy mean?
- Dilogy means ambiguous or equivocal speech or discourse.
- What part of speech is dilogy?
- Dilogy is a noun.
- How do you pronounce dilogy?
- Dilogy is pronounced /ˈdɪləd͡ʒi/.
- What is the plural of dilogy?
- The plural of dilogy is dilogies.
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