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- Gongorism
collapse - an affected elegance of style that was introduced into Spanish literature by the poet Gongora related words >
- euphemism
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- an inoffensive expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive related words >
- Gongorism,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- amelioration,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- artificiality,
- cushioning,
- elegance,
- euphuism,
- exquisiteness,
- formalism,
- formality,
- goody-goodness,
- goody-goodyism,
- hyperelegance,
- indirect,
- manneredness,
- mannerism,
- mild,
- mitigation,
- mollification,
- overelaboration,
- overelegance,
- overniceness,
- overpreciseness,
- overrefinement,
- pedantry,
- preciosity,
- preciousness,
- precisianism,
- pretentiousness,
- purism,
- substitution,
- unnaturalness,
- vague
- preciosity
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- the quality of being fastidious or excessively refined related words >
- Gongorism,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- artificiality,
- ceremonialism,
- elegance,
- euphemism,
- euphuism,
- exquisiteness,
- formalism,
- formality,
- goody-goodness,
- goody-goodyism,
- hyperelegance,
- legalism,
- manneredness,
- mannerism,
- overelaboration,
- overelegance,
- overniceness,
- overpreciseness,
- overrefinement,
- pedantism,
- pedantry,
- preciousness,
- preciseness,
- precisianism,
- pretentiousness,
- punctilio,
- punctiliousness,
- purism,
- ritualism,
- scrupulousness,
- unnaturalness
- hypersensitivity
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- extreme sensitivity
- pathological sensitivity related words >
- allergy,
- anaphylaxis,
- considerateness,
- delicacy,
- empathy,
- exquisiteness,
- fineness,
- hairsplitting,
- hypercriticism,
- hyperesthesia,
- hyperpathia,
- hypersensitiveness,
- identification,
- irritability,
- morbid sensibility,
- nervousness,
- overconscientiousness,
- overcriticalness,
- overfastidiousness,
- overmeticulousness,
- overniceness,
- overnicety,
- overparticularity,
- overrefinement,
- overscrupulousness,
- oversensibility,
- oversensitiveness,
- oversensitivity,
- oversqueamishness,
- overtenderness,
- passibility,
- perceptiveness,
- perceptivity,
- photophobia,
- prickliness,
- responsiveness,
- sensitiveness,
- sensitivity,
- sensitization,
- soreness,
- supersensitivity,
- sympathy,
- tact,
- tactfulness,
- temperamentalness,
- tenderness,
- tetchiness,
- thin skin,
- ticklishness,
- touchiness
- pedantry
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- an ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning related words >
- bibliolatry,
- bibliomania,
- bluestockingism,
- book learning,
- book madness,
- bookiness,
- bookishness,
- booklore,
- ceremonialism,
- classical scholarship,
- classicism,
- culture,
- donnishness,
- elegance,
- eruditeness,
- erudition,
- euphemism,
- euphuism,
- exquisiteness,
- formalism,
- formality,
- goody-goodness,
- goody-goodyism,
- humanism,
- humanistic scholarship,
- intellectualism,
- intellectuality,
- learnedness,
- legalism,
- letters,
- literacy,
- overniceness,
- overpreciseness,
- overrefinement,
- pedantism,
- preciosity,
- preciousness,
- preciseness,
- precisianism,
- punctilio,
- punctiliousness,
- purism,
- reading,
- ritualism,
- scholarship,
- scrupulousness
- 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
- any artificially elegant style of language related words >
- 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
- hairsplitting
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- making too fine distinctions of little importance; "they didn't take his hairsplitting seriously" related words >
- adverse criticism,
- animadversion,
- aspersion,
- bad notices,
- bad press,
- bickering,
- boggling,
- captious,
- captiousness,
- carping,
- cavil,
- caviling,
- censoriousness,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- choplogic,
- contradistinction,
- critical,
- criticism,
- cynical,
- delicate,
- demarcation,
- differentiation,
- distinction,
- distinctiveness,
- distinguishment,
- division,
- dodging,
- equivocation,
- equivocatory,
- evasion,
- evasive,
- exception,
- faultfinding,
- fencing,
- finespun,
- flak,
- hairline,
- hedging,
- hit,
- home thrust,
- hostile criticism,
- hypercritical,
- hypercriticalness,
- hypercriticism,
- hypersensitive,
- hypersensitivity,
- imputation,
- knock,
- logic-chopping,
- microscopic distinction,
- morbid sensibility,
- morbidly sensitive,
- nagging,
- nice,
- nice distinction,
- niggle,
- niggling,
- nit,
- nit-picking,
- nuance,
- obloquy,
- overconscientious,
- overconscientiousness,
- overcritical,
- overcriticalness,
- overfastidious,
- overfastidiousness,
- overmeticulous,
- overmeticulousness,
- overnice,
- overniceness,
- overnicety,
- overparticular,
- overparticularity,
- overprecise,
- overrefined,
- overrefinement,
- overscrupulous,
- overscrupulousness,
- oversensitive,
- oversensitivity,
- oversqueamish,
- oversqueamishness,
- paltering,
- parrying,
- pestering,
- pettifoggery,
- pettifogging,
- petty,
- picayune,
- prevarication,
- priggishness,
- pussyfooting,
- quibble,
- quibbling,
- rap,
- refined,
- reflection,
- reproachfulness,
- segregation,
- separation,
- shade of difference,
- shifting,
- shuffling,
- sidestepping,
- slam,
- stricture,
- subterfuge,
- subtle,
- subtle distinction,
- swipe,
- taking exception,
- tergiversation,
- trichoschistic,
- trichoschistism,
- trifling,
- trivial,
- ultracritical
- Gongorism,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- aroma,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- artificiality,
- attribute,
- badge,
- brand,
- cachet,
- cast,
- character,
- characteristic,
- command of language,
- configuration,
- cut,
- differentia,
- differential,
- distinctive feature,
- earmark,
- eccentricity,
- euphemism,
- euphuism,
- exaggeration,
- expression of ideas,
- facade,
- false front,
- false show,
- fashion,
- feature,
- feeling for words,
- feigned belief,
- figure,
- flavor,
- form of speech,
- front,
- grace of expression,
- grandiloquence,
- gust,
- habit,
- hallmark,
- hyperelegance,
- hypocrisy,
- idiocrasy,
- idiosyncrasy,
- image,
- impress,
- impression,
- index,
- individualism,
- inflation,
- insincerity,
- keynote,
- lineaments,
- literary style,
- lugs,
- manner,
- manner of speaking,
- manneredness,
- mark,
- marking,
- mere show,
- minauderie,
- mode,
- mode of expression,
- mold,
- nature,
- oddness,
- odor,
- overelaboration,
- overelegance,
- overniceness,
- overrefinement,
- particularity,
- peculiar trait,
- peculiarity,
- personal style,
- preciosity,
- preciousness,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- property,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- purism,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- quality,
- queerness,
- quirk,
- rhetoric,
- savor,
- seal,
- sense of language,
- sham,
- shape,
- show,
- singularity,
- smack,
- specialty,
- stamp,
- strain,
- style,
- stylishness,
- stylistic analysis,
- stylistics,
- taint,
- tang,
- taste,
- the grand style,
- the plain style,
- the sublime,
- token,
- trademark,
- trait,
- trick,
- trick of behavior,
- unnaturalness,
- vein,
- way
- artfulness
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- the quality of being adroit in taking unfair advantage related words >
- Gongorism,
- Italian hand,
- ability,
- acuteness,
- address,
- adeptness,
- adroitness,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airmanship,
- animal cunning,
- art,
- artifice,
- artificiality,
- artisanship,
- artistry,
- astuteness,
- bravura,
- brilliance,
- cageyness,
- callidity,
- canniness,
- capability,
- capacity,
- cleverness,
- command,
- competence,
- control,
- coordination,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- craftsmanship,
- credibility gap,
- cunning,
- cunningness,
- deceit,
- deceitfulness,
- deftness,
- deviousness,
- dexterity,
- dexterousness,
- dextrousness,
- diplomacy,
- disingenuousness,
- duplicity,
- efficiency,
- euphemism,
- euphuism,
- expertise,
- facility,
- falseheartedness,
- falseness,
- fine Italian hand,
- finesse,
- forswearing,
- foxiness,
- fraud,
- furtiveness,
- gamesmanship,
- grace,
- grip,
- guile,
- guilefulness,
- handiness,
- horsemanship,
- hyperelegance,
- hypocrisy,
- indirection,
- ingeniousness,
- ingenuity,
- insidiousness,
- insincerity,
- intrigue,
- inventiveness,
- know-how,
- low cunning,
- manneredness,
- mannerism,
- marksmanship,
- mastership,
- mastery,
- one-upmanship,
- overelaboration,
- overelegance,
- overniceness,
- overrefinement,
- pawkiness,
- perjury,
- practical ability,
- preciosity,
- preciousness,
- pretentiousness,
- proficiency,
- prowess,
- purism,
- quickness,
- readiness,
- resource,
- resourcefulness,
- satanic cunning,
- savoir-faire,
- savvy,
- seamanship,
- sharp practice,
- sharpness,
- shiftiness,
- shrewdness,
- skill,
- skillfulness,
- slickness,
- slipperiness,
- slyness,
- sneak attack,
- sneakiness,
- sophistry,
- stealth,
- stealthiness,
- style,
- subtility,
- subtilty,
- subtleness,
- subtlety,
- suppleness,
- surreptitiousness,
- tact,
- tactfulness,
- technical brilliance,
- technical mastery,
- technical skill,
- technique,
- timing,
- treacherousness,
- trickiness,
- uncandidness,
- uncandor,
- underhandedness,
- unfrankness,
- unnaturalness,
- unsincereness,
- untruthfulness,
- virtuosity,
- wariness,
- wiles,
- wiliness,
- wit,
- wizardry,
- workmanship
- formality
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- compliance with formal rules; "courtroom formality"
- a manner that strictly observes all forms and ceremonies; "the formality of his voice made the others pay him close attention"
- a requirement of etiquette or custom; "a mere formality" related words >
- Procrustean law,
- act,
- baccalaureate service,
- bienseance,
- bill,
- bylaw,
- canon,
- celebration,
- ceremonial,
- ceremony,
- circumstance,
- civility,
- code,
- commencement,
- conformity,
- convenance,
- convention,
- conventional usage,
- conventionalism,
- conventionality,
- convocation,
- correctness,
- criterion,
- custom,
- decency,
- decorousness,
- decorum,
- decree,
- demureness,
- dictate,
- dictation,
- duty,
- earnestness,
- edict,
- elegance,
- empty formality,
- enactment,
- etiquette,
- euphemism,
- euphuism,
- exactness,
- exercise,
- exercises,
- exquisiteness,
- form,
- form of worship,
- formal,
- formalism,
- formula,
- formulary,
- function,
- good form,
- goody-goodness,
- goody-goodyism,
- graduation,
- graduation exercises,
- gravity,
- grimness,
- guideline,
- heraldry,
- holy rite,
- inaugural,
- inauguration,
- inflexibility,
- initiation,
- institution,
- jus,
- law,
- law of nature,
- legislation,
- lex,
- liturgy,
- long face,
- maxim,
- measure,
- mode of worship,
- mummery,
- mystery,
- norm,
- norma,
- observance,
- office,
- order of nature,
- order of worship,
- ordinance,
- ordonnance,
- overniceness,
- overpreciseness,
- overrefinement,
- pedantry,
- performance,
- politesse,
- pomp,
- practice,
- preciosity,
- preciousness,
- precisianism,
- precision,
- prescribed form,
- prescript,
- prescription,
- pride,
- principle,
- procedure,
- propriety,
- protocol,
- punctilio,
- purism,
- regulation,
- religious ceremony,
- rigidity,
- rite,
- rite de passage,
- rite of passage,
- ritual,
- ritual observance,
- rituality,
- rubric,
- rule,
- ruling,
- sacrament,
- sacramental,
- sedateness,
- seemliness,
- seriousness,
- service,
- set form,
- sober-mindedness,
- soberness,
- sobersidedness,
- sobersides,
- sobriety,
- social convention,
- social usage,
- solemnity,
- solemnization,
- solemnness,
- somberness,
- staidness,
- standard,
- standing order,
- state,
- statute,
- stiffness,
- straight face,
- strictness,
- thoughtfulness,
- universal law,
- weightiness,
- wont
- elegance
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- a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste; "she conveys an aura of elegance and gentility"
- a quality of neatness and ingenious simplicity in the solution of a problem (especially in science or mathematics); "the simplicity and elegance of his invention" related words >
- Babylonian splendor,
- acquired taste,
- amenities,
- appreciation of excellence,
- arabesque,
- attractiveness,
- baroque,
- baroqueness,
- beauteousness,
- beautifulness,
- beauty,
- beauty unadorned,
- bloom,
- breeding,
- brilliance,
- charm,
- cheeseparing,
- chic,
- chinoiserie,
- choiceness,
- civilities,
- civility,
- civilized taste,
- civilizedness,
- clothes-consciousness,
- comity,
- convention,
- courtliness,
- coxcombry,
- cultivated taste,
- cultivation,
- culture,
- daintiness,
- dandyism,
- decencies,
- decency,
- decorousness,
- decorum,
- delicacy,
- dignity,
- diplomatic code,
- discrimination,
- ease,
- economy,
- economy of assumption,
- economy of means,
- elaborateness,
- elegancies,
- etiquette,
- euphemism,
- euphuism,
- excellence,
- exquisite manners,
- exquisiteness,
- facility,
- fanciness,
- fastidiousness,
- fineness,
- finesse,
- flamboyance,
- floridity,
- floridness,
- flow,
- floweriness,
- fluency,
- foppery,
- foppishness,
- formalism,
- formalities,
- formality,
- frugality,
- genteelness,
- gentility,
- gentlemanlikeness,
- gentlemanliness,
- gentleness,
- glory,
- glow,
- good breeding,
- good form,
- good manners,
- good taste,
- goody-goodness,
- goody-goodyism,
- gorgeousness,
- grace,
- gracefulness,
- gracility,
- graciosity,
- graciousness,
- grandeur,
- grandiosity,
- grandness,
- handsomeness,
- imposingness,
- impressiveness,
- jauntiness,
- ladylikeness,
- lavishness,
- law of parsimony,
- loveliness,
- lushness,
- luxuriance,
- luxuriousness,
- luxury,
- magnificence,
- majesty,
- manners,
- modesty,
- mores,
- moresque,
- nattiness,
- natural politeness,
- neatness,
- niceness,
- nicety,
- nobility,
- ostentation,
- overelaborateness,
- overelegance,
- overniceness,
- overornamentation,
- overpreciseness,
- overrefinement,
- parsimoniousness,
- parsimony,
- pedantry,
- pinching,
- plushness,
- poetry,
- point of etiquette,
- polish,
- politeness,
- politesse,
- poshness,
- preciosity,
- preciousness,
- precisianism,
- prettiness,
- proprieties,
- propriety,
- protocol,
- proudness,
- pudency,
- pudicity,
- pulchritude,
- punctilio,
- purism,
- quality,
- quiet good manners,
- refinement,
- resplendence,
- richness,
- ritziness,
- rococo,
- rules of conduct,
- scrimping,
- seemliness,
- shame,
- sharpness,
- skimping,
- sleekness,
- smartness,
- smoothness,
- social code,
- social conduct,
- social graces,
- social procedures,
- social usage,
- sophistication,
- spiffiness,
- splendidness,
- splendiferousness,
- splendor,
- state,
- stateliness,
- stinting,
- style,
- subtlety,
- sumptuousness,
- taste,
- tastefulness,
- the beautiful,
- trimness
- affectation
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- a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display related words >
- Barnumism,
- Gongorism,
- act,
- acting,
- action,
- actions,
- activity,
- acts,
- address,
- affectedness,
- air,
- airs,
- appearance,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- artificiality,
- attitudinizing,
- bearing,
- bedizenment,
- behavior,
- behavior pattern,
- behavioral norm,
- behavioral science,
- big talk,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- carriage,
- cheating,
- color,
- coloring,
- command of language,
- comportment,
- conduct,
- convolution,
- culture pattern,
- custom,
- deception,
- delusion,
- demeanor,
- deportment,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- doing,
- doings,
- euphemism,
- euphuism,
- exaggeration,
- expression of ideas,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- fashion,
- feeling for words,
- feigning,
- feint,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- folkway,
- form of speech,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- fulsomeness,
- garishness,
- gaudiness,
- gestures,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- goings-on,
- grace of expression,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- guise,
- high-flown diction,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hyperelegance,
- imposture,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- insincerity,
- lexiphanicism,
- literary style,
- loftiness,
- lugs,
- luridness,
- magniloquence,
- maintien,
- manner,
- manner of speaking,
- manneredness,
- mannerism,
- manners,
- masquerade,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- method,
- methodology,
- methods,
- mien,
- mode,
- mode of expression,
- modus vivendi,
- motions,
- movements,
- moves,
- observable behavior,
- orotundity,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- outward show,
- overelaboration,
- overelegance,
- overniceness,
- overrefinement,
- pattern,
- peculiarity,
- personal style,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- playacting,
- poise,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontification,
- port,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- posturing,
- practice,
- praxis,
- preciosity,
- preciousness,
- presence,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- pretext,
- procedure,
- proceeding,
- prose run mad,
- purism,
- representation,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sensationalism,
- sense of language,
- sententiousness,
- sham,
- show,
- showiness,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- social science,
- speciousness,
- stiltedness,
- strain,
- style,
- stylistic analysis,
- stylistics,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tactics,
- tall talk,
- the grand style,
- the plain style,
- the sublime,
- tone,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- trick,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- unnaturalness,
- varnish,
- vein,
- way,
- way of life,
- ways,
- window dressing
- Gongorism,
- Italian hand,
- Machiavellianism,
- action,
- acuteness,
- ad hoc measure,
- adeptness,
- adroitness,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- ambidexterity,
- answer,
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artfulness,
- artificiality,
- astuteness,
- bad faith,
- bag of tricks,
- blind,
- bluff,
- bosey,
- cabal,
- cageyness,
- callidity,
- canniness,
- catch,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- chouse,
- cleverness,
- collusion,
- complicity,
- complot,
- confederacy,
- connivance,
- connivery,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- contriving,
- countermove,
- counterplot,
- coup,
- course of action,
- covin,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- cunning,
- cunningness,
- curve,
- curve-ball,
- cute trick,
- deceit,
- deceitfulness,
- deception,
- deep-laid plot,
- demarche,
- design,
- device,
- dirty deal,
- dirty trick,
- dishonesty,
- dissimulation,
- dodge,
- dodgery,
- double-dealing,
- doubleness,
- doubleness of heart,
- duplicity,
- effort,
- engineering,
- euphemism,
- euphuism,
- expedient,
- faithlessness,
- fakement,
- falseheartedness,
- falseness,
- fast deal,
- feint,
- fetch,
- ficelle,
- finagling,
- fine Italian hand,
- finesse,
- foul play,
- foxiness,
- frame-up,
- gambit,
- game,
- gamesmanship,
- gimmick,
- googly,
- grift,
- guile,
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- hyperelegance,
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- little game,
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- manneredness,
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- one-upmanship,
- originality,
- overelaboration,
- overelegance,
- overniceness,
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- pass,
- pettifoggery,
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- pis aller,
- plot,
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- preciosity,
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- rigging,
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- satanic cunning,
- scheme,
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- scurvy trick,
- shake-up,
- sharp practice,
- sharpness,
- shift,
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- shrewdness,
- skill,
- skulduggery,
- sleight,
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- underplot,
- unnaturalness,
- wariness,
- web of intrigue,
- wile,
- wiles,
- wiliness,
- wily device,
- wire-pulling,
- wit,
- working hypothesis,
- working proposition
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