Aporia: Definition and part of speech

Aporia

  1. n. A figure in which the speaker professes to be at a loss what course to pursue, where to begin to end, what to say, etc.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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