| NOUN | communication | apophasis | mentioning something by saying it will not be mentioned |
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| Meaning | mentioning something by saying it will not be mentioned. | |
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| Broader | rhetorical device | A use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance) |
| Spanish | apophasis, paralipsis | |
| Catalan | apophasis | |
| Adjectives | apophatic | of or relating to the belief that God can be known to humans only in terms of what He is not (such as 'God is unknowable') |
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