What is the meaning of Catachresis?

A misuse of a word; an application of a term to something which it does not properly denote.

  1. Such a misuse involving some similarity of sound between the misused word and the appropriate word.

Such a misuse involving some similarity of sound between the misused word and the appropriate word.

A misapplication or overextension of figurative or analogical description; a wrongly applied metaphor or trope.

Source: wiktionary.org