catachresis
Noun
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Strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as `blatant' to mean `flagrant') or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: `blind mouths') (synset 107116700)
is a type of: rhetorical device - a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)
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