hypocatastasis

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English

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek ὑποκατάστασις (hupokatástasis, substitution).

Noun

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hypocatastasis (countable and uncountable, plural hypocatastases)

  1. (uncountable, rhetoric) The implication or declaration of a comparison that does not directly invoke both objects of the comparison.
  2. (countable, rhetoric) The word or phrase used in this way; an implied comparison.

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