paralipsis

Noun

1. suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted
   • Synonyms
     • paralepsis
     • paraleipsis
     • preterition
   • Less specific
     • rhetorical device

LookUp Addendum

Noun

1. Rhetoric the device of giving emphasis by professing to say little or nothing about a subject, as in not to mention their unpaid debts of several million.