"Socratic irony" meaning in All languages combined

See Socratic irony on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: Socratic ironies [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} Socratic irony (countable and uncountable, plural Socratic ironies)
  1. The practice or act of asking someone a question, as though ignorant of the answer, in order to show a flaw in their argument. Wikipedia link: Socratic irony Tags: countable, uncountable Related terms: daft laddie question Coordinate_terms: Socratic method Translations (the practice or act of asking someone a question in order to demonstrate their ignorance): sokraattinen ironia (Finnish), ironie socratique [feminine] (French), σωκρατική ειρωνεία (sokratikí eironeía) [feminine] (Greek), ironia sokratejska [feminine] (Polish), ironia socrática [feminine] (Portuguese), sokratovská irónia (Slovak)

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Socratic ironies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "Socratic irony (countable and uncountable, plural Socratic ironies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with French translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Greek translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Polish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Slovak translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "coordinate_terms": [
        {
          "word": "Socratic method"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The practice or act of asking someone a question, as though ignorant of the answer, in order to show a flaw in their argument."
      ],
      "id": "en-Socratic_irony-en-noun-~2OuQ0zO",
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "daft laddie question"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "the practice or act of asking someone a question in order to demonstrate their ignorance",
          "word": "sokraattinen ironia"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "the practice or act of asking someone a question in order to demonstrate their ignorance",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ironie socratique"
        },
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "sokratikí eironeía",
          "sense": "the practice or act of asking someone a question in order to demonstrate their ignorance",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "σωκρατική ειρωνεία"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "the practice or act of asking someone a question in order to demonstrate their ignorance",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ironia sokratejska"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "the practice or act of asking someone a question in order to demonstrate their ignorance",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ironia socrática"
        },
        {
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "the practice or act of asking someone a question in order to demonstrate their ignorance",
          "word": "sokratovská irónia"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Socratic irony"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Socratic irony"
}
{
  "coordinate_terms": [
    {
      "word": "Socratic method"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Socratic ironies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "Socratic irony (countable and uncountable, plural Socratic ironies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "daft laddie question"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English eponyms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with Greek translations",
        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Slovak translations"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The practice or act of asking someone a question, as though ignorant of the answer, in order to show a flaw in their argument."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Socratic irony"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "the practice or act of asking someone a question in order to demonstrate their ignorance",
      "word": "sokraattinen ironia"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "the practice or act of asking someone a question in order to demonstrate their ignorance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ironie socratique"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "sokratikí eironeía",
      "sense": "the practice or act of asking someone a question in order to demonstrate their ignorance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "σωκρατική ειρωνεία"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "the practice or act of asking someone a question in order to demonstrate their ignorance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ironia sokratejska"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "the practice or act of asking someone a question in order to demonstrate their ignorance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ironia socrática"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "the practice or act of asking someone a question in order to demonstrate their ignorance",
      "word": "sokratovská irónia"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Socratic irony"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Socratic irony meaning in All languages combined (2.2kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.