anesis

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek ἄνεσις (ánesis, “loosening, abatement, remission”)

Noun

anesis

1. (medicine) Remission of disease symptoms.
2. (rhetoric) Addition of a sentence, clause or phrase that diminishes what preceded.

Examples (rhetoric)
He was energetic, articulate, popular, and overconfident

Synonyms

• (rhetoric): abating

Anagrams

• Inessa, Saines, anises, asines, sanies, sansei

Latin

Noun

anesīs

1. dative/ablative plural of anesum

References

• anesis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)