hypocatastasis
English
Noun
hypocatastasis (countable and uncountable, plural hypocatastases)
- (uncountable, rhetoric) The implication or declaration of a comparison that does not directly invoke both objects of the comparison.
- (countable, rhetoric) The word or phrase used in this way; an implied comparison.
See also
- analogy
- idiom
- metaphor
- metonymy
- simile