METALEPSIS

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Substituting metonymy of one figurative sense for another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

metonymy (substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in 'they counted heads'))

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