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tapinoses

tapinoses is the plural of tapinosis.

Meaning of tapinosis

Noun

tapinosis (plural tapinoses)

  1. (rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby something is given less importance by the name given it than it merits.
    Synonyms:
    abbaser, meiosis

Questions about tapinoses

What is tapinoses the plural of?
Tapinoses is the plural of tapinosis.

Words near tapinoses in the dictionary

  1. tapinocephalians
  2. tapinocephalic
  3. tapinocephalid
  4. tapinocephalids
  5. tapinocephaly
  6. tapinoses
  7. tapinosis
  8. tapioca
  9. tapioca fish
  10. tapioca pearl
  11. tapioca pearls

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tapinoses (page history and authors); tapinosis (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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