• (RP) enPR: kătəkrēʹsĭs, IPA: /kætəˈkɹiːsɪs/,

catachresis (plural catachreses)

1. A misuse of a word; an application of a term to something which it does not properly denote.
   1. (often, especially) Such a misuse involving some similarity of sound between the misused word and the appropriate word.
2. (rhetoric) A misapplication or overextension of figurative or analogical description; a wrongly-applied metaphor or trope.
   • [1835, L[arret] Langley, A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster: Printed by C. White, Baxter-Gate, OCLC 1062248511 ↗, page 14 ↗:

     A Catachresis terms abused receives,
     And epithets and attributes improper gives.]

• (misuse of a word, regardless of similar sounds) misnomer
• (misuse of a word, with similar sounds) malapropism
• ((rhetoric) bad metaphor or trope) abusio

• catachresized
• catachrestic
• catachrestical
• catachrestically

• Portuguese: catacrese
• Russian: катахре́за
• Spanish: impropiedad léxica

• French: catachrèse
• German: Katachrese
• Italian: catacresi
• Portuguese: catacrese
• Russian: катахре́за
• Spanish: catacresis