parisology
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek πάρισος (párisos, “almost equal, balanced”) + -logy (“way of speaking”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pærɪˈsɒləd͡ʒi/
Noun
[edit]parisology (countable and uncountable, plural parisologies)
- The use of equivocal or ambiguous words.
References
[edit]- ^ “parisology”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
