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PARAPHRASIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does paraphrasis mean? 

PARAPHRASIS (noun)
  The noun PARAPHRASIS has 1 sense:

1. rewording for the purpose of clarificationplay

  Familiarity information: PARAPHRASIS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PARAPHRASIS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Rewording for the purpose of clarification

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

paraphrase; paraphrasis

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

recasting; rephrasing; rewording (changing a particular word or phrase)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "paraphrasis"):

translation (rewording something in less technical terminology)


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