antimeria

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Based on Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí) + μέρος (méros).

Examples

"I'll unhair thy head"
from Shakespeare's Anthony and Cleopatra, II, v, 64

Noun

antimeria (uncountable)

  1. (rhetoric) The use of a word as if it were a member of a different word class, thus altering its meaning.

Translations

References

De Mille, James. The Elements of Rhetoric. Harper & Brothers: 1878 p. 137.Antimeria

Portuguese

Noun

antimeria f (plural antimerias)

  1. (rhetoric) antimeria (the use of one word class as if it were a member of another)
  2. (biology) antimerism (the division of the body into antimeres)
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