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(countable, rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby something is made to seem smaller or less important than it actually is.

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meiosis

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meiosis

IPA（発音記号）

/maɪˈəʊ.sɪs/

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日本語の意味

実際よりも小さく、重要度が低いものとして表現する、控えめな表現（過小評価を強調する修辞技法）

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Calling the emergency a 'minor inconvenience' was a clever use of meiosis to calm the public.

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緊急事態を「ちょっとした不便」と呼ぶのは、世間を落ち着かせるための巧妙な矮小化の使い方だった。

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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.

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