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What is the noun for understatement?

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understatement
  1. An incomplete statement, particularly:
    1. (rhetoric) 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; meiosis.
    2. An instance of such phrasing or lack of emphasis.
    3. An incomplete disclosure that intentionally withholds relevant information.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “This premise itself is probably an understatement of the situation.”
      “It's a hilarious film full of gems of comic absurdity that are mixed in with nonchalant understatement.”
      “The sequence is thus all the more powerful for its brevity and understatement.”
understatedness
understater
  1. A person who understates
understatements
  1. plural of understatement
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “To say the man was large would be an understatement beyond all understatements.”
      “Section 512 of the bill would add a penalty for understatements of tax for transactions lacking economic substance.”
      “Accuracy-related penalties include negligence, substantial understatements and substantial overstatements.”
understaters
  1. plural of understater
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