different between apophasis vs euphemism

English

Etymology

Via Late Latin apophasis from Ancient Greek ???????? (apóphasis, “denial, negation”) from ???- (apo-, “away, from, off”) +? ????? (phásis, “statement, proposition”) from ???? (ph?mí, “to speak”) from Proto-Hellenic *p???m? from Proto-Indo-European *b?eh?; whence Latin f?r?, cognate to fame, fable.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??p?f?s?s/

Noun

apophasis (plural apophases)

1. (rhetoric) An allusion to something by denying that it will be mentioned.

   Synonyms: paralipsis, parasiopesis, praeteritio, preterition

   Hyponyms: proslepsis, assumptio

   Hypernym: irony

   Coordinate terms: antiphrasis, concessio, epitrope, mycterism, sarcasm

2. (Christianity, philosophy, theology) A process of arriving at knowledge by statements of denial; particularly, developing a concept of God through negative assertions about his nature.

   Synonyms: apophatic theology, via negativa

   Antonyms: cataphasis, via affirmativa

Related terms

• apo-
• -phasis
• apophatic
• apophatically

Translations

See also

• not to mention
• to say nothing of

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (apóphasis, “denial, negation”), ???- (apo-, “away, from, off”) +? ????? (phásis, “statement, proposition”) from ??????? (apóph?mi, “speak out; say no, refuse, deny”) from Attic Greek ???? (ph?mí), Doric Greek ???? (ph?mí) from Proto-Hellenic *p???m? from Proto-Indo-European *b?eh?; whence via Proto-Italic *f??r, *f?m? compare f?r?, f?bula, f?ma, hence English fable, fame.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a?po.p?a.sis/, [ä?p?p?äs??s?]
• (Vulgar) IPA^(key): /a?po?.fa.sis/, [a?p??fas?s]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a?po.fa.sis/, [??p??f?s?is]

Noun

apophasis f (genitive apophasis); third declension

1. denial, negation, repudiation
2. (Late Latin, logic, rhetoric) apophasis; ironically alluding to a subject matter by denying that the subject will be mentioned, embedded within a statement or rhetorical question whereby one, as it were, answers himself
3. (Ecclesiastical Latin, Christianity, philosophy, theology) apprehending knowledge of what is true about an unknowable, such as the essence of a divine being like God, by a negative process of denying propositions that are knowably untrue

   Synonyms: abnuentia, negatio, (New Latin) via negativa

   Antonyms: affirmatio, aientia, cataphasis, (New Latin) via affirmativa

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Descendants

Noun

apophas?s f

1. accusative plural of apophasis

References

• apophasis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• apophasis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• apophasis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 142
• apophasis in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, page 499

English

Etymology

Recorded since 1656; from Ancient Greek ?????????? (euph?mismós), from ???????? (euph?míz?), from ??????? (eúph?mos, “uttering sound of good omen, abstaining from inauspicious words”), from ?? (eû, “well”) + ???? (ph?m?, “a voice, a prophetic voice, rumor, talk”), from ????? (phánai, “to speak, say”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: yoo?'f?-m?z"(?)m, IPA^(key): /?ju?.f??m?.z(?)m/

Noun

euphemism (countable and uncountable, plural euphemisms)

1. (uncountable) The use of a word or phrase to replace another with one that is considered less offensive, blunt or vulgar than the word or phrase which it replaces.
2. (countable) A word or phrase that is used to replace another in this way.

Antonyms

• dysphemism
• expletive

Related terms

• euphemistic
• pseudonym

Derived terms

• youthemism

Translations

Further reading

• euphemism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Euphemism in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• euphemism in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• euphemism in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• euphemism at OneLook Dictionary Search