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Peristasis vs Enargia - What's the difference?

peristasis | enargia | Hyponyms |

Peristasis is a hyponym of enargia.


As nouns the difference between peristasis and enargia

is that peristasis is (architecture) a four-sided porch or hall of columns surrounding the cella in an ancient greek peripteros temple while enargia is (rhetoric) vivid, lively description.

peristasis

English

Noun

(wikipedia peristasis)
  • (architecture) A four-sided porch or hall of columns surrounding the cella in an Ancient Greek peripteros temple.
  • (medicine) An inactive phase of vasoconstriction in inflammation.

    • enargia

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rhetoric) Vivid, lively description.

    • Hyponyms

    * (rhetoric) anemographia, astrothesia, characterismus, chorographia, chronographia, dendrographia, effictio, ethopoeia, geographia, hydrographia, peristasis, pragmatographia, prosopographia, topographia, topothesia

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