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EUPHUISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does euphuism mean? 

EUPHUISM (noun)
  The noun EUPHUISM has 2 senses:

1. any artificially elegant style of languageplay

2. 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 mythologyplay

  Familiarity information: EUPHUISM used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


EUPHUISM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any artificially elegant style of language

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("euphuism" is a kind of...):

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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "euphuism"):

Gongorism (an affected elegance of style that was introduced into Spanish literature by the poet Gongora)


Sense 2

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("euphuism" is a kind of...):

prose (ordinary writing as distinguished from verse)


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