English > expressive style: 1 sense > noun 1, communication| Meaning | A way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period. |
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| Synonym | style |
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| Category | art, artistic creation, artistic production | The creation of beautiful or significant things |
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| language, linguistic communication | A systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols |
| music | An artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner |
| Narrower | allegory | An expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject / subject by suggestive resemblances |
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| analysis | The use of closed-class words instead of inflections |
| bathos | triteness or triviality of style |
| black humor, black humour | The juxtaposition of morbid and farcical elements (in writing or drama) to give a disturbing effect |
| device | Something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect |
| eloquence, fluency, smoothness | Powerful and effective language |
| euphuism | Any artificially elegant style of language |
| flatness | A want of animation or brilliance |
| formulation, expression | The style of expressing yourself |
| grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, grandiloquence, rhetoric | High-flown style |
| headlinese | Using the abbreviated style of headline writers |
| jargon | Specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject / subject |
| journalese | The style in which newspapers are written |
| legalese | A style that uses the abstruse technical vocabulary of the law |
| manner of speaking, speech, delivery | Your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally |
| music genre, musical genre, genre, musical style | An expressive style of music |
| officialese | The style of writing characteristic of some government officials |
| pathos | A style that has the power to evoke feelings |
| poetry | Any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling |
| prose | matter of fact, commonplace, or dull expression |
| rhetoric | Using language effectively to please or persuade |
| saltiness, coarseness | language or humor that is down-to-earth |
| self-expression | The expression of one's individuality (usually through creative activities) |
| sesquipedality | Using long / long words |
| terseness | A neatly short / short and concise expressive style |
| turn of phrase, turn of expression | A distinctive spoken or written expression |
| vein | A distinctive style or manner |
| verboseness, verbosity | An expressive style that uses excessive or empty words |
| writing style, literary genre, genre | A style of expressing yourself in writing |
| Broader | communication | Something that is communicated by or to or between people or groups |
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| Spanish | discurso, estilo |
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| Catalan | estil d'expressió, estil |
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