dilogy
noun/ˈdɪləd͡ʒi/
Etymology From Latin dilogia, from Ancient Greek διλογία (dilogía, “repetition”), from δίς (dís, “twice”) + -λογία (-logía, “-logy”).
1
Ambiguous or equivocal speech or discourse.
2
Repetition of a word or phrase.
3
Nonstandard A series of two related works.
- why tragedy took the form of a trilogy — not a dilogy, tetralogy, or single drama1885, The Journal of Hellenic studies: Volume 6, page 167:
- another school of thought, for which Purphoros is a mirage, a mere doublet of Purkaeus, and there were never more than two linked Prometheus plays -- as it were a dilogy1983, Reginald Pepys Winnington-Ingram, Studies in Aeschylus, page 189:
1 more example
- Most notable of these are his “dilogy” The Salamander (1841) and The Cosmorama (1839)2012, A New Companion to the Gothic, David Punter, page 71:
- Synonyms
- duology