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tapinosis

tapinosis noun: a figure of speech whereby something is given less importance by the name given it than it merits.

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

Synonyms of tapinosis

Forms of tapinosis

pluraltapinoses

Origin of tapinosis

Borrowed from Latin tapīnōsis (“depreciation”), itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ταπείνωσις (tapeínōsis, “lowering”), from ταπεινός (tapeinós, “low”).

Questions about tapinosis

What does tapinosis mean?
Tapinosis means a figure of speech whereby something is given less importance by the name given it than it merits.
What part of speech is tapinosis?
Tapinosis is a noun.
What is the plural of tapinosis?
The plural of tapinosis is tapinoses.

Words near tapinosis in the dictionary

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

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