catachresis (English, noun)
expansion: catachresis (countable and uncountable, plural catachreses)
Senses:
glosses: A misuse of a word; an application of a term to something which it does not properly denote.
tags: countable
uncountable
glosses: A misuse of a word; an application of a term to something which it does not properly denote.
Such a misuse involving some similarity of sound between the misused word and the appropriate word.
tags: countable
especially
often
uncountable
glosses: A misapplication or overextension of a figurative or analogical description; a wrongly applied metaphor or trope.
tags: countable
rhetoric
uncountable
Forms:
form: catachreses
tags: plural
form: catechresis
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: katachresis
tags: alternative
obsolete