antiphrasis
(en)
(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”)
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antiphrasis
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
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7 years, 6 months ago
Minou Drouet's texts in this sense appear as the antiphrasis of all poetry insofar as they flee that solitary weapon of writers, literality
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7 years, 5 months ago