adynaton
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Noun — A type of exaggeration so extreme that it describes something impossible.
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Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin adynaton (“impossibility; adynaton”), or taken directly from its source Ancient Greek ἀδύνατον (adúnaton, “an impossibility; impracticality”), the substantivized neuter singular of ἀδύνατος (adúnatos, “unable; that cannot be done, impossible”) plus -ον (-on, noun-forming suffix). The word ἀδύνα...
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