Homophones for apophasis, apophysis

apophasis / apophysis [əˈpɒfəsɪs]

apophasis – n. – (Rhetoric) a kind of irony where one denies that they say or do something which they especially do or say; advising something under a feigned show of dissuading it

apophysis – n. – 1. a bone process such as on a vertebra; 2. a swelling on a cone scale of certain conifers; 3. an external spur or process on the exoskeleton of an insect; 4. an offshoot from an intrusive body of igneous rock