hysteron proteron

短语

n. [修辞]倒置法, 逆序法

词形变化

hysteron proterons 复数 hysteron proterons

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A figure of speech in which a phrase that should come last is put first; hysterology.

    "He is well and lives" is a hysteron proteron.

  2. 2.

    An inversion or reversal of the natural order of things.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 2

logical fallacy rhetorical device

词源

From Ancient Greek, from ὕστερον (hústeron, “latter, arriving late”) + πρότερον (próteron, “former, before”).

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