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METALEPSIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does metalepsis mean?
• METALEPSIS (noun)
The noun METALEPSIS has 1 sense:
1. substituting metonymy of one figurative sense for another
Familiarity information: METALEPSIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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