Meaning

2 senses
  1. (uncountable)The repetition of the same word in a sentence with a different meaning.

  2. (uncountable)The inversion of the parts of an antithesis, as in "A poem is a speaking picture; a picture, a mute poem" (Crabbe).

    A rhetorical figure resulting from a reverted arrangement in the last clause of a sentence of the two principal words of the clause preceding; inversion of the members of an antithesis: as, ‘A poem is a speaking picture; a picture a mute poem’.

Translations

1 languages

Origin

From anti- + metathesis.

From anti- + metathesis.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

antimetathesis — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto