paralipsis

1. 1.

   suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted

   Synonymsparalepsisparaleipsispreterition

   Broaderrhetorical device

Other forms of paralipsis

plural

paralipsises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about paralipsis

What does paralipsis mean?

paralipsis means "suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted".

How many syllables are in paralipsis?

paralipsis has 4 syllables: pa-ra-lip-sis. The stress falls on "ra".

What is another word for paralipsis?

Close synonyms include paralepsis, paraleipsis, preterition. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is paralipsis a common word?

paralipsis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.