different between apophatically vs apophasis

English

Etymology

apophatic +? -ally

Adverb

apophatically (comparative more apophatically, superlative most apophatically)

1. (theology) In an apophatic way; using apophasis.

Translations

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