SOCRATIC IRONY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Socratic irony mean? 

• SOCRATIC IRONY (noun)
  The noun SOCRATIC IRONY has 1 sense:

1. admission of your own ignorance and willingness to learn while exposing someone's inconsistencies by close questioning

  Familiarity information: SOCRATIC IRONY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOCRATIC IRONY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Admission of your own ignorance and willingness to learn while exposing someone's inconsistencies by close questioning

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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)