English > magniloquence: 1 sense > noun 1, communication| Meaning | High-flown style; excessive use of verbal / verbal ornamentation. |
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| Synonyms | grandiosity, ornateness, grandiloquence, rhetoric |
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| Narrower | bombast, fustian, rant, claptrap, blah | pompous or pretentious talk or writing |
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| 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 |
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| Spanish | altilocuencia, altisonancia, grandilocuencia, grandiloqüencia |
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| Catalan | altiloqüència, altisonància, grandiloqüència |
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| Adjectives | magniloquent | lofty in style |
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