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MAGNILOQUENCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does magniloquence mean?
• MAGNILOQUENCE (noun)
The noun MAGNILOQUENCE has 1 sense:
1. high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation
Familiarity information: MAGNILOQUENCE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
High-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
grandiloquence; grandiosity; magniloquence; ornateness; rhetoric
Context example:
an excessive ornateness of language
Hypernyms ("magniloquence" 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 "magniloquence"):
flourish (a display of ornamental speech or language)
blah; bombast; claptrap; fustian; rant (pompous or pretentious talk or writing)
Derivation:
magniloquent (lofty in style)
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