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Noun: tapinosis
  1. (rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby something is given less importance by the name given it than it merits.
    "The last and perhaps the most important of the ridiculing figures according to these writers is tapinosis."

Type of: litotes, meiosis

Encyclopedia: Tapinosis