Usually means: Vivid description creating mental images.
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  1. hypotyposis: Merriam-Webster
  2. hypotyposis: Collins English Dictionary
  3. hypotyposis: Wordnik
  4. hypotyposis: Wiktionary
  5. hypotyposis: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. Hypotyposis, hypotyposis: Dictionary.com
  7. Hypotyposis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. hypotyposis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Hypotyposis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. hypotyposis: FreeDictionary.org
  11. hypotyposis: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  12. hypotyposis: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hypotyposis)

▸ noun:  (rhetoric) A vivid, picturesque description of scenes or events.

Similar:
paremptosis, pathopoeia, adynaton, prosopopoeia, hypostrophe, rhopalism, polyptoton, synecdochy, prosopopœia, rhetoric, more...

Opposite:
hyperbole, exaggeration, overstatement

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Similar:
paremptosis, pathopoeia, adynaton, prosopopoeia, hypostrophe, rhopalism, polyptoton, synecdochy, prosopopœia, rhetoric, more...

Opposite:
hyperbole, exaggeration, overstatement



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