| NOUN | communication | periphrasis, circumlocution, ambage | a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things |
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| Meaning | A style that involves indirect ways of expressing things. | |
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| Synonyms | circumlocution, ambage | |
| Broader | verboseness, verbosity | An expressive style that uses excessive or empty words |
| Spanish | ambage, circunlocución, perífrasis | |
| Catalan | circumlocució, circumloqui, perífrasi, perífrasis | |
| Adjectives | periphrastic | roundabout and unnecessarily wordy |
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