circumlocutions
Meaning of circumlocutions
plural noun
- the use of many words where fewer would do, especially in a deliberate attempt to be vague or evasive.
his admission came after years of circumlocution
he used a number of poetic circumlocutions
late Middle English: from Latin circumlocutio(n- ) (translating Greek periphrasis ), from circum ‘around’ + locutio(n- ) from loqui ‘speak’.
Information about circumlocutions
- It is a name.
- The singular form of circumlocutions is: circumlocution.
- Languages in which circumlocutions is used:
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Hyphenation of circumlocutions
cir-cum-lo-cu-tions
- It consists of 5 syllables and 15 chars.
- circumlocutions is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
circumlocutions synonyms
Meaning the use of indirect and circumlocutory speech or writing:
Meaning the saying of the same thing twice over in different words, generally considered to be a fault of style (e.g. they arrived one after the other in succession ):
Meaning the action of repeating something that has already been said or written:
Meaning the fact or quality of using more words than needed; wordiness:
Meaning excessively lengthy or technical speech or writing:
Meaning the state of being not or no longer needed or useful:
Meaning an unnecessarily or excessively large amount or number of something:
Meaning a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing:
Meaning the use of more words than are necessary to convey meaning (e.g. see with one's eyes ), either as a fault of style or for emphasis:
Meaning the use of more words than are necessary to convey meaning:
Words that rhyme with circumlocutions
ions, eccaleobions, excambions, gabions, symbions, Halcions, cions, coercions, epinicions, scions, suspicions, unsuspicions, accordions, collodions, diacodions, encheiridions, enchiridions, gammadions, melodions, pyramidions, rhipidions, stasidions, tordions, turdions, Legions, analogions, bioregions, contagions, euchologions, irreligions, legions, logions, regions, religions, subregions, tragions, trisagions, Malathions, antifashions, apocynthions, cushions, ethions, falchions, fashions, fauchions, faulchions, fenthions, fushions, gnathions, gumphions
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