paralipsis
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Etymology edit
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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paralipsis (countable and uncountable, plural paraleipses)
- (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:
- These negatives are a paraleipsis: what cannot be done to the soul can be done to the body.
- 2008, Alisa Lebow, First Person Jewish, page 60:
- Oxenberg tells us twice that she does not talk about the sister who died. She fools no one with this paralipsis […] .
- 2016 November 2, Slate:
- What's left to consider? I am loath to bring up Trump's paralipsis.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
figure of speech — see also apophasis
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Finnish edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek παράλειψις (paráleipsis).
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paralipsis
- (rhetoric) paraleipsis
- Synonyms: apofaasi, katafaasi, preteritio
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Inflection of paralipsis (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | paralipsis | paralipsikset | ||
genitive | paralipsiksen | paralipsisten paralipsiksien | ||
partitive | paralipsista | paralipsiksia | ||
illative | paralipsikseen | paralipsiksiin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | paralipsis | paralipsikset | ||
accusative | nom. | paralipsis | paralipsikset | |
gen. | paralipsiksen | |||
genitive | paralipsiksen | paralipsisten paralipsiksien | ||
partitive | paralipsista | paralipsiksia | ||
inessive | paralipsiksessa | paralipsiksissa | ||
elative | paralipsiksesta | paralipsiksista | ||
illative | paralipsikseen | paralipsiksiin | ||
adessive | paralipsiksella | paralipsiksilla | ||
ablative | paralipsikselta | paralipsiksilta | ||
allative | paralipsikselle | paralipsiksille | ||
essive | paralipsiksena | paralipsiksina | ||
translative | paralipsikseksi | paralipsiksiksi | ||
abessive | paralipsiksetta | paralipsiksitta | ||
instructive | — | paralipsiksin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek παράλειψις (paráleipsis, “omission”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
paralipsis f (plural paralipsis)
Further reading edit
- “paralipsis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014