antiphrasis noun.
[an'tɪfrǝsɪs] Pl. -ases
[-ǝsi:z].
M18.[Late Latin from Greek, from antiphrazein express by the opposite, formed as ANTI- + phrazein indicate, declare, tell.]Rhetoric. Use of words in a sense opposite to their customary meaning.
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