Euphemism vs Meiosis - What's the difference?
euphemism | meiosis |
(uncountable) The use of a word or phrase to replace another with one that is considered less offensive, blunt or vulgar than the word or phrase it replaces.
(countable) A word or phrase that is used to replace another in this way.
(countable, rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby something is made to seem smaller or less important than it actually is.
* 1965 , John Fowles, The Magus :
(uncountable, cytology) Cell division of a diploid cell into four haploid cells, which develop to produce (l).
As nouns the difference between euphemism and meiosis
is that euphemism is fib for liemeiosis is a figure of speech whereby something is made to seem smaller or less important than it actually is.euphemism
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{{examples-right, examples= * fib'' for '' * correctional facility'' for ''prison'' (compare dysphemism: ''slammer ) * sleep (with)]]'' for ''[[have sex, have sex (with)'' (compare dysphemisms: ''bang'', ''fuck ) * pass away'' for '' * vertically challenged'' for ''short'' (physical stature; compare dysphemisms: ''midget'', ''dwarf ) }}Antonyms
* dysphemism * expletiveExternal links
* (wikipedia "euphemism") * * * *meiosis
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- I knew, with one of those secret knowledges that can exist between two people, that her suicide was a direct result of my having told her of my own attempt – I had told it with a curt meiosis that was meant to conceal depths; and she had called my bluff one final time.