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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