catachresis - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as `blatant' to mean `flagrant') or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: `blind mouths')

Synonyms

• catachresis

More generic

• rhetorical device

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