User:Pharamp/My Wiktionary

A

• aphasia - (patology) A partial or total loss of language skills due to brain damage.
• anthropology - (study) The holistic scientific and social study of humanity, mainly using ethnography as its method.
• aposiopesis - (rhetoric) An abrupt breaking-off in speech.

C

• chiasmus - (grammar) An inversion of the relationship between the elements of phrases.
• contronym - (semantics) Word with multiple meanings, one of which is defined as the reverse of one of its other meanings.
• cosmogony - (philosophy) Any specific theory, model, myth, or other account of the origin of the universe.

D

• demonym - (semantics) A name for an inhabitant or native of a specific place that is derived from the name of the place.

E

• epicene - (linguistics) Having only one form of the word, which serves as both masculine and feminine, even for either male or female referents.
• hermeneutics - (study) The study or theory of the methodical interpretation of text, especially holy texts.

H

• hypotaxis - (grammar) Syntactic subordination of one clause or construction to another.

I

• idiolect - (linguistics) The language variant used by a specific individual.
• interrobang - (punctuation) The symbol ‽ (combination of ? and !).

K

• kenning - (poetry) Circumlocution used instead of an ordinary noun in Old Norse literature.

M

• metathesis - (linguistics) The transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word.

P

• parataxis - (grammar) Speech or writing in which clauses or phrases are placed together without being separated by conjunctions.

S

• syncretism - (linguistics) The fusion of different inflexional forms.