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SOCRATIC IRONY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Admission of your own ignorance and willingness to learn while exposing someone's inconsistencies by close questioning
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("Socratic irony" is a kind of...):
irony (incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs)