Words and phrases that have a meaning related to elision: (121 results)
Often used in the same context:
dialectic, archaism, journalese, lexis, vulgarization, metonymy, indirectness, disjunction, accentuation, inelegance, deracination, tu quoque, intertextuality, conflation, tautology, unintelligibility, charlatanry, diabolism, gendering, metafiction, prolixity, pompousness, literalness, hyperboles, infelicities, abstract noun, ephemerality, threnody, blatancy, foregrounding, didacticism, chiasmus, juxtaposition, panegyric, orientalism, ambiguousness, objective correlative, blitheness, supernaturalism, duologue, pedantry, crudities, shavian, inarticulateness, ascription, incoherency, disquisition, banality, wishfulness, contrariness, indeterminacy, excursus, grand guignol, effacing, pithiness, solecism, speciousness, alterity, incongruence, sarcasms, circumlocution, misquotation, clownishness, reactionism, presentism, diffuseness, sophoclean, explication, sordidness, pentameter, fictionalisation, declension, interrogative, doubleness, boundlessness, inconsequentiality, obtuseness, rawly, stylisation, disjuncture, abjection, terseness, intellectualization, allegoric, attitudinizing, dichotomy, judeophobia, inexactitude, misandry, unorthodoxy, caesura, ingenuousness, nabokovian, apologia, inexorability, barbarisms, lexicography, staginess, essentialism, ineffectuality, assonance, spoonerism, antithesis, misinterpretation, erasure, misreading, recasting, reversion, slippage, blurring, transmutation, ambiguity, blending, equivocation, inconsistency, misconception, omission, alliteration, clarification, inaccuracy
More general:
Also try:deletion
— Adjectives for elision: such, complete, similar, non, easy, same, frequent, simple, common, consonant, proper, more...
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