Enantiosis

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A figure of speech by which what is to be understood affirmatively is stated negatively, and vice versa; affirmation by contraries. countable, rhetoric, uncountable

Synonyms

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synoeciosis

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἐναντίος (enantíos, “contradiction”).

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figure of speechvice versa

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