Words Like EUPHUISM

We have put together a list of words that are similar to EUPHUISM.

1 Alternative Words Similar to euphuism

1 Style Noun      Synonym Words Like Style

6 definitions of euphuism

1 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.
2 Synonyms This word is sometimes confounded with euphemism and euphony. It has nothing to do with either.
3 An ornate style of writing (in Elizabethan England) marked by the excessive use of alliteration, antithesis and mythological similes.
4 An example of euphuism.
5 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
6 any artificially elegant style of language
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