English Explanatory Dictionary

paromologia

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A concession to an adversary in order to strengthen one's own argument.

Word forms

paromologia paromology

Etymology

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

Related words

acknowledge the corn elephant in the room emperor's new clothes gorilla in the room kernel of truth
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