Home › Words › A › abusioabusioabusio means catachresis.EtymologyUnadapted borrowing from Latin. Doublet of abusion.nounCatachresis.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.catachresis 77% match — Either of two types of misuse of a word or misapplication of a concept.; A misuse of a word; an application of a term to something which it does not properly denote. vs abusio →catachrestic 65% match — Constituting or related to catachresis. vs abusio →catachresized 63% match — Of a word, that has been misused. vs abusio →abusage 60% match — Synonym of abuse. vs abusio →catachrestical 60% match — catachrestic vs abusio →abusement 58% match — Abuse. vs abusio →catachrestically 58% match — In a catachrestic way. vs abusio →adnominatio 57% match — paronomasia; wordplay vs abusio →