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meiosis
(rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby something is made to seem smaller or less important than it actually is.
📑 Synonyms:
understatement
💬 Quotations
I knew, with one of those secret knowledges that can exist between two people, that her suicide was a direct result of my having told her of my own attempt – I had told it with a curt meiosis that was meant to conceal depths; and she had called my bluff one final time.
(cytology) Cell division of a diploid cell into four haploid cells, which develop to produce (gametes).
📑 Synonyms:
reduction division