different between litotes vs paralipsis

English

Etymology

From Renaissance Latin litotes, from Ancient Greek ??????? (litót?s, literally “plainness”), from ????? (litós, “simple”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /la??t??.ti?z/, enPR: l?t?'t?z
• Hyphenation: li?to?tes

Noun

litotes (plural litotes)

1. (rhetoric) An ironic figure of speech whereby something is stated by denying its opposite, particularly the negation of a negative quality to say something positive.

   Antonym: hyperbole

   Hypernyms: irony, understatement, meiosis

Translations

See also

• paradiastole
• double negative
• Appendix:Snowclones/not the X-est in the Y

Further reading

• litotes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Litotes in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• Sottile, oil test, toilest, toilets

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li.t?t/

Noun

litotes f

1. plural of litote

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

litotes m (definite singular litotesen, indefinite plural litoteser, definite plural litotesene)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by litot

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

litotes m (definite singular litotesen, indefinite plural litotesar, definite plural litotesane)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by litot

Polish

Etymology

From Latin litotes, from Ancient Greek ??????? (litót?s), from ????? (litós, “simple”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?i?t?.t?s/

Noun

litotes m inan (indeclinable)

1. (rhetoric) litotes

   Synonym: litota

Further reading

• litotes in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• litotes in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

litotes f (plural litotes)

1. (rhetoric) litotes (an understatement employed for rhetoric effect)

English

Alternative forms

• paralepsis, paraleipsis

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????????? (paráleipsis, “omission”), from ????????? (paraleíp?, “I pass over”), from ???? (pará, “by, near”) + ????? (leíp?, “I leave”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?pæ.???l?p.s?s/

Noun

paralipsis (countable and uncountable, plural paraleipses)

1. (rhetoric, linguistics) A figure of speech in which one pretends to ignore or omit something by actually mentioning it. [from 16th c.]

   Synonyms: apophasis, preterition

   • 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:

   • 2008, Alisa Lebow, First Person Jewish, p. 60:

   • 2016, Slate, 2 November:

Translations

Finnish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????????? (paráleipsis).

Noun

paralipsis

1. (rhetoric) paraleipsis

   Synonyms: apofaasi, katafaasi, preteritio

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????????? (paráleipsis, “omission”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa?a?libsis/, [pa.?a?li??.sis]

Noun

paralipsis f (plural paralipsis)

1. (rhetoric) paraleipsis