hypocatastasis

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὑποκατάστασις (hupokatástasis, “substitution”).

Noun

hypocatastasis (countable and uncountable, plural hypocatastases)

1. (uncountable, rhetoric) The implication or declaration of a comparison that does not directly invoke both objects of the comparison.
2. (countable, rhetoric) The word or phrase used in this way; an implied comparison.

See also

• analogy
• idiom
• metaphor
• metonymy
• simile