An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
APOPHASIS
apophasis
(noun) mentioning something by saying it will not be mentioned
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
apophasis (plural apophases)
(rhetoric) An allusion to something by denying that it will be mentioned.
Synonyms: paralipsis, parasiopesis, praeteritio, preterition
Hyponyms: proslepsis, assumptio
Hypernym: irony
Coordinate terms: antiphrasis, concessio, epitrope, mycterism, sarcasm
(Christianity, philosophy, theology) A process of arriving at knowledge by statements of denial; particularly, developing a concept of God through negative assertions about his nature.
Synonyms: apophatic theology, via negativa
Antonyms: cataphasis, via affirmativa
Source: Wiktionary
A*poph"a*sis, n. Etym: [Gr. (Rhet.)
Definition: A figure by which a speaker formally declines to take notice of a favorable point, but in such a manner as to produce the effect desired. [For example, see Mark Antony's oration. Shak., Julius Cæsar, iii. 2.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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