paraphrasis
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9.9
- noun
- /ˌpærəˈfræsɪs/
- The teacher's paraphrasis of the poem helped the students to understand its meaning.
Examples
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Legal documents often benefit from paraphrasis to make their language clearer.
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Can you provide a paraphrasis of this text?
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A careful paraphrasis can reveal underlying assumptions in the original statement.
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The teacher explained the concept using paraphrasis.
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The teacher's paraphrasis of the poem helped the students to understand its meaning.
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Legal documents often benefit from paraphrasis to make their language clearer.
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A careful paraphrasis can reveal underlying assumptions in the original statement.
Synonyms
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4.2
A short text that gives the same meaning in different words to make it clearer
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4.1
A different way of saying the same idea to make it clearer
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4.9
An action of saying or doing the same thing again to make it clear and show its importance
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3.7
Changing a text to make it clearer or better
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3.5
Saying or writing the same idea using different words to make it clearer
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5.6
Changing the words of a sentence to say it more clearly
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3.5
Putting something into different words to make it clearer
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7.0
To describe something again in a new or clearer way
Saying or writing something again in a different way to make it clearer
Saying someone else's words in a new way to make them clearer
How Restated
Surface Forms
Morphology
paraphrasis = paraphrase (semi-transparent) = para + phrase + is
This is a learned variant of "paraphrase"; the core meaning is clear, but the Greek-style ending is not a fully productive English pattern.
Etymology
Paraphrasis comes from Greek parts para- 'beside' and the same root as phrase 'speech' or 'words'. So it means putting your words 'beside' the original ones, that is, saying it in different words to make it clearer.