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Noun irony has 3 senses
- sarcasm, irony, satire, caustic remark - 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"--Johathan Swift
--1 is a kind of wit, humor, humour, witticism, wittiness
- irony - incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; "the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated"
--2 is a kind of incongruity, incongruousness
--2 has particulars: Socratic irony
- irony - a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs
--3 is a kind of trope, figure of speech, figure, image
--3 has part: antiphrasis
--3 has particulars: dramatic irony
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