| NOUN | communication | metalepsis | substituting metonymy of one figurative sense for another |
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| Meaning | Substituting metonymy of one figurative sense for another. | |
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| Broader | metonymy | Substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in 'they counted heads') |
| Spanish | metalepsis | |
| Catalan | metalepsi, metalepsis | |
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