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Substitution vs Enallage - What's the difference?

substitution | enallage |

As nouns the difference between substitution and enallage

is that substitution is substitution, replacement while enallage is (uncountable|rhetoric) transformation from one grammatically correct form to another.

substitution

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • the act of substituting or the state of being substituted
  • a substitute or replacement
  • (chemistry) (especially in organic chemistry) the replacement of an atom, or group of atoms, in a compound, with another

    • Derived terms

    * substitution cipher * substitution reaction * substitution rule

    Anagrams

    *

    enallage

    English

    Alternative forms

    * enallagy

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (uncountable, rhetoric) Transformation from one grammatically correct form to another.
  • (uncountable, rhetoric) The substitution of one grammatical form for another that violates a grammatical rule.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1851, author=Goold Brown, title=The Grammar of English Grammars, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=And when all men shall have adopted this enallage , the fault indeed will be banished, or metamorphosed, but with it will go an other sixth part of every English conjugation. }}
  • (rhetoric, countable) An application of enallage.

    • Hyponyms

    * alleotheta, allotheta, alleosis;

    See also

    * ("enallage" on Wikipedia)