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Paralipsis

//ˌpæ.ɹəˈlɪp.sɪs// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A figure of speech in which one pretends to ignore or omit something by actually mentioning it. countable, rhetoric, uncountable

    "These negatives are a paraleipsis: what cannot be done to the soul can be done to the body."

  2. 2
    suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted wordnet

Etymology

From Ancient Greek παράλειψις (paráleipsis, “omission”), from παραλείπω (paraleípō, “I pass over”), from παρά (pará, “by, near”) + λείπω (leípō, “I leave”).

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