Did you perhaps mean one of these? toxicosis, vaginosis
Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. rhetoric A figure of speech whereby something is given less importance by the name given it than it merits.
Etymologies
- From Latin tăpīnōsis ("depreciation"), from Ancient Greek τᾰπείνωσις (tapeinosis, "lowering"), from ταπείνωσις (tapeinos, "low") (Wiktionary)
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from phrontistery.info
tabacosis, tabanid, tabaret, tabati?re, tabby, tabefaction, tabellary, tabellion, tabernacle, tabernacular, tabescent, tabific and 930 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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richardr's Words
marmoreal, osteology, tyromancy, metalepsis, idioglossia, tapinosis, epicaricacy, carromancy, rogation, senex, aulic, gemütlichkeit and 279 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3250 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
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