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en⋅an⋅ti⋅o⋅sis

  [i-nan-tee-oh-sis]
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–noun, plural -ses  [-seez] . Rhetoric.
a figure of speech in which what is meant is the opposite of what is said; irony.
Origin:
1650–60; < Gk enantíōsis. See enantio-, -osis
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