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

1 sense of socratic irony

Sense 1
Socratic irony -- (admission of your own ignorance and willingness to learn while exposing someone's inconsistencies by close questioning)
       => irony -- (incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; "the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated")