Anthimeria

Quick meaning: Anthimeria is a noun meaning (rhetoric) The use of a word from one word class or part of speech as if it were from another, in English typically the use of a noun as if it were a verb.

Meaning

(rhetoric) The use of a word from one word class or part of speech as if it were from another, in English typically the use of a noun as if it were a verb.

Example Sentences

Not only is "I googled that hottie" great publicity for the company, but it's fresh and funny and an excellent example of how anthimeria gives English an invigorating slap upside the head.

Consider some other examples of anthimeria using slightly different types of words in the noun slot: Crystal's slogans "Full of Wow" and "Full of Yum," and the popular use of fail as a noun, as in "an epic fail" or "buckets of fail."

Word Forms

• anthimerias
• antimeria

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include agnomination, periphrasis, adnominatio, antonomasia, hypallage, merism.

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