Also known as self-correction
An epanorthosis is a figure of speech that signifies emphatic word replacement. "Thousands—no, millions!" is a stock example. Epanorthosis as immediate and emphatic self-correction often follows a Freudian slip (either accidental or deliberate).
An epanorthosis is a figure of speech that signifies emphatic word replacement. "Thousands—no, millions!" is a stock example. Epanorthosis as immediate and emphatic self-correction often follows a Freudian slip (either accidental or deliberate).
==Etymology== The word , attested 1570, is from Ancient Greek () "correcting, revision" terrible fine."
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).