Exact Match:
- euphuism
- 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
- any artificially elegant style of language
Synonyms:
- Gongorism,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- artificiality,
- asiaticism,
- device,
- elegance,
- euphemism,
- exquisiteness,
- figurative language,
- figurativeness,
- figure,
- figure of speech,
- floridity,
- flourish,
- flower,
- flowery style,
- formalism,
- formality,
- goody-goodness,
- goody-goodyism,
- hyperelegance,
- image,
- imagery,
- manner of speaking,
- manneredness,
- mannerism,
- nonliterality,
- nonliteralness,
- ornament,
- overelaboration,
- overelegance,
- overniceness,
- overpreciseness,
- overrefinement,
- pedantry,
- preciosity,
- preciousness,
- precisianism,
- pretentiousness,
- purism,
- purple passage,
- trope,
- turn of expression,
- unnaturalness,
- way of speaking