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Indirect expression   /ɪndərˈɛkt ɪksprˈɛʃən/   Listen
Indirect expression

noun
1.
An indirect way of expressing something.  Synonym: circumlocution.






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"Indirect expression" Quotes from Famous Books



... between "Capital" and "Labor," but nature does not know "Capital" or "Labor" at all. Nature knows only matter, energy, "space," "time," potential and kinetic use-values, forces in all their direct and indirect expression, the energies of living men, living powers of dead men, and the bound-up powers of Time and the ancient Sun. Nature made man an increasing exponential function of time, a time-binder, a power able to transform and direct basic ...
— Manhood of Humanity. • Alfred Korzybski



Words linked to "Indirect expression" :   evasion, equivocation



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