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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the use of a word in a sense opposite to its normal sense (especially in irony);


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Antiphrasis \An*tiph"ra*sis\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to express by antithesis or negation.] (Rhet.) The use of words in a sense opposite to their proper meaning; as when a court of justice is called a court of vengeance. [1913 Webster] Antiphrastic
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

antiphrasis n 1: the use of a word in a sense opposite to its normal sense (especially in irony)