Meanings (ES + gloss)
comedimiento • eufemismo • frivolización • generosidad • infravaloración • mesura • minimización • subestimación
A figure of speech whereby something is made to seem smaller or less important than it actually is, either through phrasing or lack of emphasis, often for ironic effect.
A master of understatement
And that mode of expression is very demurring and self-deprecating. Victorian English was all about understatement.
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