Metonymy vs Hypocatastasis - What's the difference?
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The use of a single characteristic or name of an object to identify an entire object or related object.
(countable) A metonym.
{{examples-right, caption=metonymy , examples=*The White House released its official report today. — "The White House" for "The presidential administration"
* The Crown has enacted a new social security policy. — "The Crown" for "The government of the United Kingdom".
* A crowd of fifty heads — where "head" stands for person.
* Put it on the plastic — material (plastic) for object (credit card), width=60%}} (uncountable, figure of speech) The implication or declaration of a comparison that does not directly invoke both objects of the comparison.
(countable, rhetoric) The word or phrase used in this way. An implied comparison.
As nouns the difference between metonymy and hypocatastasis
is that metonymy is the use of a single characteristic or name of an object to identify an entire object or related object while hypocatastasis is the implication or declaration of a comparison that does not directly invoke both objects of the comparison.metonymy
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(wikipedia metonymy)Noun
* The Crown has enacted a new social security policy. — "The Crown" for "The government of the United Kingdom".
* A crowd of fifty heads — where "head" stands for person.
* Put it on the plastic — material (plastic) for object (credit card), width=60%}}
