Associations to the word «Aposiopesis»

Noun

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Wiktionary

APOSIOPESIS, noun. (rhetoric) An abrupt breaking-off in speech.

Dictionary definition

APOSIOPESIS, noun. Breaking off in the middle of a sentence (as by writers of realistic conversations).

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope