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catachresis
Overview of noun catachresis
The noun catachresis has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. catachresis -- (strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as `blatant' to mean `flagrant') or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: `blind mouths'))
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun catachresis
1 sense of catachresis
Sense 1
catachresis
=> rhetorical device
=> device
=> expressive style, style
=> communication
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun catachresis
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun catachresis
1 sense of catachresis
Sense 1
catachresis
=> rhetorical device
Antonyms of noun catachresis
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Meronyms of noun catachresis
Holonyms of noun catachresis
Attributes of noun catachresis
Derived Forms of noun catachresis
1 sense of catachresis
Sense 1
catachresis
RELATED TO>(adj) catachrestic#1
=> catachrestic, catachrestical
RELATED TO>(adj) catachrestical#1
=> catachrestic, catachrestical
Domain of noun catachresis
Domain Terms of noun catachresis
Familiarity of noun catachresis
catachresis used as a noun is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun catachresis
1 sense of catachresis
Sense 1
catachresis
> rhetorical device
=> anacoluthia, anacoluthon
=> asyndeton
=> repetition
=> anastrophe, inversion
=> antiphrasis
=> antithesis
=> antinomasia
=> apophasis
=> aposiopesis
=> apostrophe
=> catachresis
=> chiasmus
=> climax
=> conversion
=> ecphonesis, exclamation
=> emphasis
=> enallage
=> epanorthosis
=> epiplexis
=> hendiadys
=> hypallage
=> hyperbaton
=> hypozeugma
=> hypozeuxis
=> hysteron proteron
=> litotes, meiosis
=> onomatopoeia
=> paralepsis, paraleipsis, paralipsis, preterition
=> paregmenon
=> polysyndeton
=> prolepsis
=> wellerism
=> trope, figure of speech, figure, image
Meronyms of noun catachresis
1 sense of catachresis
Holonyms of noun catachresis
Grep of noun catachresis
catachresis
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