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Antiphrasis is the rhetorical device of saying the opposite of what is actually meant in such a way that it is obvious what the true intention is.

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反用(はんよう、または反語法、antiphrasis)とは、何かを表現する時に、その普通の意味と正反対の意味の語を用いる修辞技法のこと。とくにイロニーで用いられる。古代ギリシア語やラテン語のanti(反対の)+phrasis(語法)から。

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