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/ˌpæ.ɹəˈlɪp.sɪs/ · noun
(rhetoric, linguistics) A figure of speech in which one pretends to ignore or omit something by actually mentioning it..
These negatives are a paraleipsis: what cannot be done to the soul can be done to the body.
Oxenberg tells us twice that she does not talk about the sister who died. She fools no one with this paralipsis […].
What's left to consider? I am loath to bring up Trump's paralipsis.
Use paralipsis when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Paralipsis means (rhetoric, linguistics) A figure of speech in which one pretends to ignore or omit something by actually mentioning it..
Common synonyms include apophasis, preterition, paraleipsis, paralepsis.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
These negatives are a paraleipsis: what cannot be done to the soul can be done to the body.
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