Words Like EUPHUISM
We have put together a list of words that are similar to EUPHUISM.
1 Alternative Words Similar to euphuism
6 definitions of euphuism
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In English literature, an affected literary style, originating in the fifteenth century, characterized by a wide vocabulary, alliteration, consonance, verbal antithesis, and odd combinations of words.
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Synonyms This word is sometimes confounded with euphemism and euphony. It has nothing to do with either.
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An ornate style of writing (in Elizabethan England) marked by the excessive use of alliteration, antithesis and mythological similes.
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An example of euphuism.
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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
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any artificially elegant style of language