Definition: an expression of, typically insincere doubt
"Aporia." Literary Terms, literaryterms.net/aporia/. Accessed 29 Aug. 2022.
Informal Definition: a device used to express doubt (usually insincere)
Etymology: 1580s, in rhetoric, "professed doubt as to where to begin," from Latin, from Greek aporia "difficulty, perplexity, want of means, poverty," abstract noun from aporos "impassable, impracticable, very difficult; hard to deal with; at a loss," from a- "not, without" + poros "passage".
Online Etymology Dictionary. 13 Oct. 2017, www.etymonline.com/word/aporia.
Accessed 29 Aug. 2022.
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