dilogy

Ambiguous or equivocal speech or discourse.

Noun

  1. Ambiguous or equivocal speech or discourse.
  2. Repetition of a word or phrase.
  3. A series of two related works.
    • why tragedy took the form of a trilogy — not a dilogy, tetralogy, or single drama - 1885, The Journal of Hellenic studies: Volume 6, page 167:
    • another school of thought, for which Purphoros is a mirage, a mere doublet of Purkaeus, and there were never more than two linked Prometheus plays -- as it were a dilogy - 1983, Reginald Pepys Winnington-Ingram, Studies...
    • Most notable of these are his “dilogy” The Salamander (1841) and The Cosmorama (1839) - 2012, A New Companion to the Gothic, David Punter, page 71:

Origin

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

Forms

dilogies

Synonyms

duology

Related

monology trilogy tetralogy pentalogy hexalogy heptalogy octalogy ennealogy decalogy polylogy (2+)