What is "euphuism" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does euphuism mean in English? Meaning of euphuism definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "euphuism" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "euphuism": any artificially elegant style of language

Noun

  • Meaning: any artificially elegant style of language
  • Synonyms: euphuism
  • Hyponyms: gongorism
  • Hypernyms: expressive style style
  • Meaning of "euphuism": an elegant style of prose of the Elizabethan period; characterized by balance and antithesis and alliteration and extended similes with and allusions to nature and mythology

    Noun

  • Meaning: an elegant style of prose of the Elizabethan period; characterized by balance and antithesis and alliteration and extended similes with and allusions to nature and mythology
  • Synonyms: euphuism
  • Hypernyms: prose
  • Synonyms:

    grandiloquence, rhetoric, bombast, delicacy, wordiness, pomposity, fustian, floridness, Gongorism, purism,

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