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I discovered that the modern Latin word used in rhetoric for irony is enantiosis...
Excellent question indeed, Alex!
tsuwm, is the above word also one of the roots of my old fave enantiodromia, hence carrying a sense of reversal?
Shame that it sounds so much like an embarrassing medical condition
"My doctor prescribed irony tablets."
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