Might mean (unverified): Implicit comparison without using "like."
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Definitions from Wiktionary (hypocatastasis)

noun:  (uncountable, rhetoric) The implication or declaration of a comparison that does not directly invoke both objects of the comparison.
noun:  (countable, rhetoric) The word or phrase used in this way; an implied comparison.

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