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dilogy

noun
/ˈdɪləd͡ʒi/

Etymology

From Latin dilogia, from Ancient Greek διλογία (dilogía, “repetition”), from δίς (dís, “twice”) + -λογία (-logía, “-logy”).

  1. derived from διλογία — “repetition”
  2. derived from dilogia

Definitions

  1. Ambiguous or equivocal speech or discourse.

  2. Repetition of a word or phrase.

  3. A series of two related works.

    • why tragedy took the form of a trilogy — not a dilogy, tetralogy, or single drama
    • another school of thought, for which Purphoros is a mirage, a mere doublet of Purkaeus, and there were never more than two linked Prometheus plays -- as it were a dilogy
    • Most notable of these are his “dilogy” The Salamander (1841) and The Cosmorama (1839)

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dilogy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA