Word definition: 'metaphor' • Lucid Lexicon
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Word definition: 'metaphor' • Lucid Lexicon
from Greek metaphora "a transfer"
especially of the sense of one word to a different word, literally "a carrying over"
15th century, "figure of speech by which a characteristic of one object is assigned to another, different but resembling it or analogous to it; comparison by transference of a descriptive word or phrase"
"Metaphors are expressions of underlying energies and interactions. The same story can be expressed through infinite sets of metaphors."
| ~☉~ | lucid definition; added layer of lucidity, or aethereal context |
| ⚜ | classic definition |
| ☣ | artificium definition; usually words which have undergone a warped evolution, or a complete perversion of the original sense |
