'Grandiloquence' definitions:
Definition of 'grandiloquence'
(from WordNet)
noun
High-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation; "the grandiosity of his prose"; "an excessive ornateness of language" [syn: grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, grandiloquence, rhetoric]
Definition of 'Grandiloquence'
From: GCIDE
- Grandiloquence \Gran*dil"o*quence\, n. The use of lofty words or phrases; bombast; -- usually in a bad sense. [1913 Webster]
- The sin of grandiloquence or tall talking. --Thackeray, [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'grandiloquence'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affectation,
- aggrandizement,
- amplification,
- ballyhoo,
- big talk,
- blowing up,
- burlesque,
- caricature,
- command of language,
- dilatation,
- dilation,
- enhancement,
- enlargement,
- exaggerating,
- exaggeration,
- excess,
- exorbitance,
- expansion,
- expression of ideas,
- extravagance,
- extreme,
- fashion,
- feeling for words,
- form of speech,
- grace of expression,
- hard word,
- heightening,
- huckstering,
- hyperbole,
- hyperbolism,
- inflation,
- inordinacy,
- jawbreaker,
- lexiphanicism,
- literary style,
- long word,
- magnification,
- manner,
- manner of speaking,
- mannerism,
- mode,
- mode of expression,
- orotundity,
- overemphasis,
- overestimation,
- overkill,
- overstatement,
- peculiarity,
- personal style,
- polysyllable,
- pomposity,
- pompousness,
- pontificality,
- pontification,
- prodigality,
- profuseness,
- puffery,
- puffing up,
- rhetoric,
- self-importance,
- sensationalism,
- sense of language,
- sesquipedalian,
- strain,
- stretching,
- stuffiness,
- style,
- stylistic analysis,
- stylistics,
- superlative,
- tall talk,
- the grand style,
- the plain style,
- the sublime,
- touting,
- travesty,
- trick,
- turgidity,
- vein,
- way