APOSIOPESIS


Meaning of APOSIOPESIS in English

ˌapəˌsīəˈpēsə̇s noun

( plural aposiope·ses -ēˌsēz)

Etymology: Late Latin, from Greek aposiōpēsis, from aposiōpan to be quite silent, from apo- + siōpan to be silent, from siōpē silence

: the leaving of a thought explicitly incomplete in writing or speaking often by a sudden breaking off and shifting of grammatical construction for rhetorical purposes (as his behavior was — but I blush to mention that ) or by the use of etc.

• ap·o·si·o·pet·ic |apəˌsīə|ped.ik adjective

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