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paromology

paromology is the alternative form of paromologia.

Meaning of paromologia

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.

Questions about paromology

What is paromology the alternative form of?
Paromology is the alternative form of paromologia.

Words near paromology in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paromology (page history and authors); paromologia (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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