| NOUN | communication | grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, rhetoric | high-flown style |
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| Meaning | High-flown style; excessive use of verbal / verbal ornamentation. | |
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| Synonyms | grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, rhetoric | |
| Narrower | bombast, fustian, rant, claptrap, blah | pompous or pretentious talk or writing |
| flourish | A display of ornamental speech or language | |
| Broader | expressive style, style | 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 |
| Spanish | altilocuencia, altisonancia, grandilocuencia, grandiloqüencia | |
| Catalan | altiloqüència, altisonància, grandiloqüència | |
| Adjectives | grandiloquent | lofty in style |
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