Paralipsis is drawing attention to something while claiming to be passing over it, thereby highlighting it.
Paralipsis es hablar mencionando algo mientras se afirma que se omite, atrayendo así la atención sobre ello.
| Front | paralipsis \par-uh-LIP-sis\ plural paralipses \-seez\ |
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| Back | noun Drawing attention to something while claiming to be passing over it. [From Late Latin paralipsis, from Greek paraleipsis (an omission), from paraleipein (to leave on one side), from para- (side) + leipein (to leave). Paralipsis is especially handy in politics to point out an opponent's faults. It typically involves these phrases: "not to mention" "to say nothing of" "I won't speak of" "leaving aside"] "Political correctness has breathed new life into the paralepsis, the rhetorical device whereby we make a statement by first announcing that we are not going to make it. When pundits write 'No one is suggesting...' the American eye reads 'I'm suggesting.'" |
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