Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In rhet, the employment of several words having a common origin in the same sentence.
Wiktionary
- n. rhetoric The juxtaposition of words that have the same roots; using cognate words together, such as curvaceous curves; my loving and beloved wife.; or He's a manly man.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Rhet.) Juxtaposing words having a common derivation, as in the phrase "sense and sensibility".
WordNet 3.0
- n. juxtaposing words having a common derivation (as in `sense and sensibility')
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘paregmenon’.
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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
pustule, purulence, pushful, purser, purpureal, putative, purpure, purpresture, purloin, purline, purlieu, purlicue and 1766 more...
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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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I didn't know there was a word for that!
interdigitate, aspheric, benthos, reptation, pastiche, pandiculate, agelast, obdormition, dysania, armscye, phosphene, etiolation and 62 more...
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Words to remember
adventive, affectation, ambiguous, anachronism, anesis, antithetic, apostasy, attenuate, authenticity, autodidact, -fic, bandolier and 146 more...
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it's rhetorical
words for talking about talk (or writing)
chiasmus, polyptoton, anaphora, parataxis, hyperbole, litotes, deictic, antanaclasis, paronomasia, synecdoche, metonymy, aporia and 28 more...
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