Adoxography
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /eɪdɒkˈsɒɡɹəfi/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Adoxography is a noun meaning (rhetoric) Fine writing on a minor or trivial subject.
Meaning
(rhetoric) Fine writing on a minor or trivial subject.
Example Sentences
The Voyage is kaleidoscopic composite of dream-vision, ideal journey, literary testament, adoxography, and mock epic.
Even Lucian's most playful exercises in adoxography, such as the Iudicium Vocalium or the Musica, can be rewritten and integrated into serious debate on contemporary issues.
Judging by the recent literature of adoxography (a sorely underused word that means “good writing on a trivial subject”), there have been many overlooked things that have changed the world.
The common factor among all three authors is the indulgence in paradox: the courtesan represents a notional ‘opposite’ to the intellectual, and therefore scholarship on courtesans has an air of ‘adoxography’ about it.
Word Forms
- adoxographies
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include adoxograph, acyrologia, hypotyposis, rhyparography, rhetoric, chironomy.
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