litotes

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A figure of speech whereby something is stated by denying its opposite.

   “The delicacy which prompts a later generation to reject that name is by no means necessarily a result of stricter habits, is far more often due to the flatness which comes of untiring repetition and to the greater piquancy of litotes.”

2. isim The negation of a negative quality to assert a positive.