paromologia

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek παρομολογία (paromología, “partial admission”), from παρα- (para-) + ὁμολογία (homología).[1]

Noun

paromologia (uncountable)

  1. (rhetoric) Concession to an adversary in order to strengthen one's own argument.
    Alternative form: paromology
    Refusing to admit the grain of truth in their opponents' arguments is how they squandered their own political power; a smart amount of paromologia might have preserved it.

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References

  1. ^ “paromologia, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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