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dilogy

noun /ˈdɪləd͡ʒi/

  1. Ambiguous or equivocal speech or discourse.

    countable, uncountable

  2. Repetition of a word or phrase.

    countable, uncountable

  3. A series of two related works.

    countable

    why tragedy took the form of a trilogy — not a dilogy, tetralogy, or single drama

Where it comes from

From Latin dilogia, from Ancient Greek διλογία (dilogía, “repetition”), from δίς (dís, “twice”) + -λογία (-logía, “-logy”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry dilogy (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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