epithetism

noun

Etymology

From epithet + -ism.

  1. derived from *dʰeh₁-
  2. derived from ἐπίθετον
  3. derived from epithetum
  4. derived from épithète
  5. suffixed as epithetism — “epithet + ism

Definitions

  1. The use of epithets or indirect figures of speech.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for epithetism. 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