APOPHASIS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mentioning something by saying it will not be mentioned

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("apophasis" is a kind of...):

rhetorical device (a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance))

Derivation:

apophatic (of or relating to the belief that God can be known to humans only in terms of what He is not (such as 'God is unknowable'))

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