Irony

Hello, Harish.

Well, this is the definition of a very special kind of irony. In Russion it is not called irony at all: we call it the Socrate's method. Socrate thus helped people to get to the truth themselfes.

Socrates used to call himself an accoucheur because he only helped the truth to be born. Thus, the person came to the right conclusions themselves.

What the dictionary says:

«a pretense of ignorance and of willingness
One behaves as if he was a bit ignorant (knew little) and wanted

«to learn from another»
(clear)

«assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions»
And he does so (= "assumes" this role) in order to make his intercolluctor's incorrect opinion

«conspicous by adroit questioning»

apparent to himself by (means of) asking him proper "leading questions".

HTH

An irony is when you are the boss of someone who disagrees with everything you said in meetings, so hated that you will fire him on the first sign of mistake by him.  And without realizing the relationship, you have been seriously dating his daughter for 6 months and just been invited to his birthday party organized by her.  ooops!