User:Pharamp/My Wiktionary
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A[edit]
- aphasia - (patology) A partial or total loss of language skills due to brain damage.
- anthropology - (study) The holistic scientific and social study of humanity, mainly using ethnography as its method.
- aposiopesis - (rhetoric) An abrupt breaking-off in speech.
C[edit]
- chiasmus - (grammar) An inversion of the relationship between the elements of phrases.
- contronym - (semantics) Word with multiple meanings, one of which is defined as the reverse of one of its other meanings.
- cosmogony - (philosophy) Any specific theory, model, myth, or other account of the origin of the universe.
D[edit]
- demonym - (semantics) A name for an inhabitant or native of a specific place that is derived from the name of the place.
E[edit]
- epicene - (linguistics) Having only one form of the word, which serves as both masculine and feminine, even for either male or female referents.
- hermeneutics - (study) The study or theory of the methodical interpretation of text, especially holy texts.
H[edit]
- hypotaxis - (grammar) Syntactic subordination of one clause or construction to another.
I[edit]
- idiolect - (linguistics) The language variant used by a specific individual.
- interrobang - (punctuation) The symbol ‽ (combination of ? and !).
K[edit]
- kenning - (poetry) Circumlocution used instead of an ordinary noun in Old Norse literature.
M[edit]
- metathesis - (linguistics) The transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word.
P[edit]
- parataxis - (grammar) Speech or writing in which clauses or phrases are placed together without being separated by conjunctions.
S[edit]
- syncretism - (linguistics) The fusion of different inflexional forms.