Irony (Noun)
Meaning 1
Witty language used to convey insults or scorn; "he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"; "irony is wasted on the stupid"; "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own"--Jonathan Swift.
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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
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Meaning 2
A trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs.
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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
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Meaning 3
Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; "the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated".
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Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects.