• IPA: /əˈpɒfəsɪs/

apophasis (plural apophases)

1. (rhetoric) An allusion to something by denying that it will be mentioned.
   • [1835, L[arret] Langley, A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster: Printed by C. White, Baxter-Gate, OCLC 1062248511 ↗, page 63 ↗:

     Apophasis, affecting to conceal;
     What it would seem to hide, will yet reveal.]

   Synonyms: paralipsis

   cot en

• apo-
• -phasis
• apophatic
• apophatically

• German: Paralipse, Praeteritio
• Portuguese: apófase
• Russian: апофа́зия
• Spanish: paralipsis, preterición