Accismus (ak-iz’-mus): A feigned refusal of that which is earnestly desired.
No! No! No! Please don’t give me another piece of your delicious chocolate-salami cake. I can’t stand being in Genoa and Bavaria at once—I want to wear lederhosen and sing opera!
Well, hmmm. I am losing my resolve.
Ok, Kraftwerk-Dante, cut me another slice. I love the gustatory clash.
Someday soon, you’ll have to come to my home and try my mushroom mousse and puréed tadpole; a recipe I obtained from a homeless person who lived by a pond. He had no electric appliances and made the dish entirely by hand with a small rock.
Definition courtesy of “Silva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu)
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