Did you mayhaps mean apologia?
Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. rhetoric inexact, inappropriate or improper use of a word
- n. malapropism
Etymologies
- From Latin, from Ancient Greek ἀκυρολογία (akurologia), α- (a-, "not") + κυρος (kuros, "authority"), λογια (logia, "speech") (Wiktionary)
Examples
“You might want to use a different phrase in lieu of the acyrologia you chose for the Dan Rusanowsky link.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘acyrologia’.
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Rhetorical Devices
trope, wellerism, antimetabole, syncope, open-list, accismus, abating, abbaser, abecedarian, abcisio, ablatio, abominatio and 425 more...
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You Don't Say
Language disorders, disabilities, and unusual demonstrations.
aphasia, aphonia, dysarthria, glossolalia, paraphasia, alexia, polymicrogyria, logorrhea, stutter, spoonerism, agraphia, malapropism and 54 more...
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Master
comprehensive
picaresque, carnivalesque, -esque, grotesque, Cocteau, necropolis, hypnopædic, mojito, imprimatur, insouciance, idyll, maestro and 239 more...
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Random Words I Love
aporia, froward, gasconade, garboil, polymath, prolegomenon, zenzizenzizenzic, microfortnight, mentimutation, synecdoche, pasquinade, abecedarian and 8 more...
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Figures of rhetoric from abuse to zeugma
I'm not sure why so many of these sound like parasitic infections
cacemphaton, acyrologia, anaphora, accismus, tapinosis, aposiopesis, bdelygmia, synathroesmus, anacephalaeosis, epiphoneme, bomphiologia, verborum bombus
Tweets
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hyperactivex Acyrologia is the use of a word that sounds similar to the correct word, but means something very different. Jun 12, 2009