20201213 Accismus

 Sunday, 13 December

#Today I found a new term of mental health, Accismus. I found it on the status of one of Instagram's account. And again, my curiosity appeared. So, I searched it in Wikipedia but it just explained shortly. Maybe Accismus still sounds foreign in public.

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Accismus is a feigned refusal of something earnestly desired.

The 1823 Encyclopædia Britannica writes that accismus may sometimes be considered a virtue, sometimes a vice.

The Latin term comes from the Greek word is "ἀκκισμός", which, according to Britannica, was "supposed to be formed from Acco (Greek: Akko), the name of a foolish old woman, famous in antiquity for an affectation of this kind." (An 1806 Lexicon Manuale Graeco-Latinum et Latino-Graecum agrees with this derivation. However, an 1820 Lexicon Graeco-Latinum associates Acco with an idle occupation, e.g., chatting with other women or looking into a mirror, hence the Greek coinages Ακκιζειν / Ακκους).

More particularly, in rhetorics, accismus is a figure of speech, a figure of refutation, is a type of irony.

• (behavior) Britannica cites Oliver Cromwell's refusal of the crown of England as an example of accismus.
• (behavior) Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia Of Literature cites the dismissal of the grapes by the fox in The Fox and the Grapes as an example 
• When receiving gifts or honors, accismus is used to demonstrate modesty: "I am not worthy of the honor."
• (ironic utterance) "I couldn't possibly accept such charity from you."

(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accismus)

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