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apophasis

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16
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17
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9
Pronunciation
/əˈpɒf.ə.sɪs/(UK)
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/əˈpɒf.ə.sɪs/(UK) · /əˈpɑf.ə.sɪs/(US)

Definition of apophasis

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, rhetoric, uncountable)An allusion to something by denying that it will be mentioned.
    “Apophasis, affecting to conceal; What it would seem to hide, will yet reveal.”
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noun

  1. (countable, rhetoric, uncountable)An allusion to something by denying that it will be mentioned.
    “Apophasis, affecting to conceal; What it would seem to hide, will yet reveal.”
  2. (countable, uncountable)A process of arriving at knowledge by statements of denial; particularly, developing a concept of God through negative assertions about his nature.

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Etymology

Via Late Latin apophasis from Ancient Greek ἀπόφασις (apóphasis, “denial, negation”) from ἀπο- (apo-, “away, from, off”) + φάσις (phásis, “statement, proposition”) from φημί (phēmí, “to speak”) from Proto-Hellenic *pʰā́mā from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂; whence Latin fārī, cognate to fame, fable.

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