enantiosis

enantiosis
/i nan'tee oh"sis/, n., pl. enantioses /-seez/. Rhet.
a figure of speech in which what is meant is the opposite of what is said; irony.
[1650-60; < Gk enantíosis. See ENANTIO-, -OSIS]

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