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logopeia

logopeia is the alternative form of logopoeia.

Meaning of logopoeia

Noun

logopoeia (uncountable)

  1. One of Ezra Pound's three kinds of poetry, consisting of the use of words for more than their denotation, taking advantage of the context associated with a word.
    • Unless I am right in discovering logopoeia in Propertius (which means unless the academic teaching of Latin displays crass insensitivity as it probably does), we must almost say that Laforgue invented logopoeia, observing that there had been a very limited range of logopoeia in all satire, and that...1931, Ezra Pound, How to Read

Questions about logopeia

What is logopeia the alternative form of?
Logopeia is the alternative form of logopoeia.

Words near logopeia in the dictionary

  1. logopedic
  2. logopedical
  3. logopedics
  4. logopedist
  5. logopedists
  6. logopeia
  7. logopenia
  8. logopenic
  9. logophile
  10. logophiles
  11. logophilia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: logopeia (page history and authors); logopoeia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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