Does anyone here recall the word and its spelling that Dr. Farrell has used that sounds something like para-something- mosis? I can’t find it so far.
Do you remember the context?
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I can’t but it is an unusual word. It is on the tip of my tongue, I just can’t recall it right now. It might have something to do with the meanings of words.
Could it be paramnesia; where dreams become confused w/reality?
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Close but I think there is one more syllable. If I ever find it I am going to keep it written down!
I think you mean “paronomasia”
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Bingo! Thank you. I have written it down.
paronomasia
păr″ə-nō-mā′zhə
noun
Word play; punning.
A pun.
In rhetoric, the use of words similar in sound but different in meaning, so as to give a certain antithetical force to the expression; also, the use of the same word in different senses; a play upon words. Also paronomasy. see pun.
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It’s paronomasia… has many meanings.
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Thank you, yes that’s it.
Y’all sure it’s not this one? :
No Wu Wu, not that one.
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