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paromologia

paromologia noun: a concession to an adversary in order to strengthen one's own argument.

Noun

paromologia (uncountable)

  1. (rhetoric) A concession to an adversary in order to strengthen one's own argument.
    • Refusing to admit the grain of truth in their opponents' arguments is how they squandered their own political power; a smart amount of paromologia might have preserved it.

paromologia meaning in Tagalog

paromologia in Tagalog

concession to an adversary in order to strengthen one's own argument
paraya

Forms of paromologia

alternative formparomology

Origin of paromologia

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek παρομολογία (paromología, “partial admission”), from παρα- (para-) + ὁμολογία (homología).

Questions about paromologia

What does paromologia mean?
Paromologia means a concession to an adversary in order to strengthen one's own argument.
What is paromologia in Tagalog?
Paromologia in Tagalog is paraya. See Paromologia meaning in Tagalog.
What part of speech is paromologia?
Paromologia is a noun.

Words near paromologia in the dictionary

  1. parols
  2. paromamine
  3. paromoeon
  4. paromoeosis
  5. paromoiosis
  6. paromologia
  7. paromology
  8. paromomycin
  9. paronellid
  10. paronomasia
  11. paronomasiac

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