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PERIPHRASIS
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Irregular inflected form: periphrases
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A style that involves indirect ways of expressing things
Synonyms:
ambage; circumlocution; periphrasis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("periphrasis" is a kind of...):
verboseness; verbosity (an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words)
Derivation:
periphrastic (roundabout and unnecessarily wordy)
