'antiphrasis' in Mythologies: The Complete Edition, in a New Translation | Bookmarker

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(noun) the usually ironic or humorous use of words in senses opposite to the generally accepted meanings (as in “this giant of 3 feet 4 inches”)

All such things inform us, by antiphrasis, about a certain ideal nature of everyday life

on the wondrous way in which the press recounts the quotidian behaviour of the royals on the cruise

—p.27 The "Blue Blood" Cruise (26) by Roland Barthes

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