Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun catachresis

1 sense of catachresis

Sense 1
catachresis -- (strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as `blatant' to mean `flagrant') or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: `blind mouths'))
       => rhetorical device -- (a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance))