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adynaton
noun
A form of hyperbole that uses exaggeration so magnified
Words Related to
adynaton
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hyperbole
,
hyperbolism
,
exaggeration
,
rhetorical device
,
paradiastole
,
falsism
,
overstatement
,
hyperbaton
,
hysteron proteron
,
absurdity
,
amphigoric
,
platitudinize
,
petitio principii
,
hypallage
,
figure of speech
,
amphigory
,
apagoge
,
falsehood
,
fallacy
,
false bottom
,
impertinency
,
auxesis
,
fish story
,
arrogative
,
gloze
,
hypobole
,
antiphrasis
,
hypocrisy
,
paraleipsis
,
sensationalism
,
pseudology
,
anadiplosis
,
dead metaphor
,
oversimplification
,
silliness
,
dramatic irony
,
acatalepsy
,
expressive style
,
untruism
,
insipience
,
paralogism
,
irony
,
untruth
,
ecphonesis
,
entonic
,
bombast
,
elench
,
unclearness
,
epiplexis
,
misinformation
,
foolishness
,
histrionics
,
outbabble
,
epanorthosis
,
cacozelia
,
obscureness
,
idiocy
,
verbigeration
,
socratic irony
,
misinterpretation
,
acataleptic
,
ignorance
,
philosophism
,
charlatanical
,
delusion
,
chicaner
,
abusion
,
distortion
,
trivialism
,
morosis
,
reductio ad absurdum
,
equivocalness
,
understatement
,
misrepresentation
,
irrationality
,
litotes
,
stuff and nonsense
,
monosemy
,
aposiopesis
,
anacoluthon
,
prodigiousness
,
nonsense
,
cliche
,
conceit
,
perissology
,
extradictionary
,
tautologize
,
stupidity
,
galimatias
,
inverisimilitude
,
epanodos
,
agnomination
,
misimagination
,
sophistry
,
magniloquence
,
allusion
,
irrisible
,
ambiguity
,
hubris
,
rudity
,
adynaton
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