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- ambages
collapse - (archaic) roundabout or mysterious ways of action related words >
- anfractuosity,
- bypass,
- circuit,
- circuitousness,
- circumambages,
- circumbendibus,
- circumlocution,
- circumvolution,
- convolution,
- crinkle,
- crinkling,
- detour,
- deviation,
- deviousness,
- digression,
- excursion,
- flexuosity,
- flexuousness,
- indirection,
- intorsion,
- involution,
- meander,
- meandering,
- obliqueness,
- periphrase,
- periphrasis,
- rivulation,
- roundabout,
- roundabout way,
- roundaboutness,
- sinuation,
- sinuosity,
- sinuousness,
- slinkiness,
- snakiness,
- torsion,
- tortility,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- turning,
- twisting,
- undulation,
- wave,
- waving,
- winding
- verbiage
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- overabundance of words related words >
- choice of words,
- circumambages,
- circumbendibus,
- circumlocution,
- cloud of words,
- composition,
- dialect,
- diction,
- expansiveness,
- expression,
- floridity,
- floridness,
- flow of words,
- flux of words,
- formulation,
- grammar,
- idiom,
- language,
- lexicon,
- lexis,
- locution,
- logorrhea,
- long-windedness,
- longiloquence,
- nimiety,
- parlance,
- periphrase,
- periphrasis,
- phrase,
- phraseology,
- phrasing,
- pleonasm,
- prolixity,
- redundancy,
- repetition,
- rhetoric,
- roundabout,
- speech,
- stock of words,
- talk,
- talkativeness,
- tautology,
- thesaurus,
- usage,
- use of words,
- usus loquendi,
- verbalism,
- verbality,
- verbosity,
- vocabulary,
- wordage,
- wordhoard,
- wordiness,
- wording,
- words
- circumlocution
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- an indirect way of expressing something
- a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things related words >
- ambages,
- anfractuosity,
- circling,
- circuition,
- circuitousness,
- circuitry,
- circularity,
- circulation,
- circumambages,
- circumambience,
- circumambiency,
- circumambulation,
- circumbendibus,
- circumflexion,
- circummigration,
- circumnavigation,
- circumvolution,
- convolution,
- crinkle,
- crinkling,
- deviance,
- deviancy,
- deviation,
- deviousness,
- digression,
- excursion,
- excursus,
- flexuosity,
- flexuousness,
- gyre,
- gyring,
- indirection,
- intorsion,
- involution,
- meander,
- meandering,
- obliqueness,
- orbit,
- orbiting,
- periphrase,
- periphrasis,
- pleonasm,
- redundancy,
- rivulation,
- roundabout,
- roundaboutness,
- rounding,
- sinuation,
- sinuosity,
- sinuousness,
- slinkiness,
- snakiness,
- spiral,
- spiraling,
- tautology,
- torsion,
- tortility,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- turn,
- turning,
- twisting,
- undulation,
- verbality,
- wave,
- waving,
- wheeling,
- winding
- adornment,
- alliteration,
- allusion,
- anacoluthon,
- anadiplosis,
- analogy,
- anaphora,
- anastrophe,
- antiphrasis,
- antithesis,
- antonomasia,
- apophasis,
- aporia,
- aposiopesis,
- apostrophe,
- beauties,
- catachresis,
- chiasmus,
- circumlocution,
- climax,
- colors,
- colors of rhetoric,
- conversion,
- ecphonesis,
- elegant variation,
- embellishment,
- embroidery,
- emphasis,
- exclamation,
- figure,
- fine writing,
- floridity,
- floridness,
- flourish,
- floweriness,
- flowers of speech,
- frill,
- gemination,
- hypallage,
- hyperbaton,
- hyperbole,
- inversion,
- irony,
- litotes,
- lushness,
- luxuriance,
- malapropism,
- meiosis,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- onomatopoeia,
- ornament,
- ornamentation,
- oxymoron,
- paregmenon,
- parenthesis,
- periphrasis,
- personification,
- pleonasm,
- preterition,
- prolepsis,
- purple patches,
- regression,
- repetition,
- sarcasm,
- simile,
- similitude,
- spoonerism,
- syllepsis,
- symploce,
- synecdoche,
- zeugma
- tautology
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- useless repetition; "to say that something is `adequate enough' is a tautology"
- (logic) a statement that is necessarily true; "the statement `he is brave or he is not brave' is a tautology" related words >
- abundance,
- amplitude,
- battology,
- bedizenment,
- circumambages,
- circumbendibus,
- circumlocution,
- cloud of words,
- copiousness,
- diffuseness,
- diffusion,
- diffusiveness,
- duplication,
- duplication of effort,
- effusion,
- effusiveness,
- embellishment,
- expletive,
- extravagance,
- exuberance,
- fat,
- featherbedding,
- fecundity,
- fertility,
- filling,
- fluency,
- formlessness,
- frill,
- frills,
- frippery,
- gingerbread,
- gush,
- gushing,
- iteration,
- logorrhea,
- long-windedness,
- luxury,
- macrology,
- needlessness,
- ornamentation,
- outpour,
- overadornment,
- overflow,
- overlap,
- padding,
- palilogy,
- payroll padding,
- periphrase,
- periphrasis,
- pleonasm,
- prodigality,
- productivity,
- profuseness,
- profusion,
- prolificacy,
- prolificity,
- prolixity,
- rampancy,
- rankness,
- redundance,
- redundancy,
- reiteration,
- reiterativeness,
- repetition,
- repetition for effect,
- repetitiousness,
- repetitiveness,
- roundabout,
- stammering,
- stuttering,
- superabundance,
- superfluity,
- superfluousness,
- superflux,
- talkativeness,
- tautologism,
- teemingness,
- tirade,
- unnecessariness,
- verbality,
- verbiage,
- verbosity,
- wordiness
- malapropism
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- the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar related words >
- Irish bull,
- abuse of terms,
- acrostic,
- alliteration,
- allusion,
- amphibologism,
- amphiboly,
- anacoluthon,
- anadiplosis,
- anagram,
- analogy,
- anaphora,
- anastrophe,
- antiphrasis,
- antithesis,
- antonomasia,
- apophasis,
- aporia,
- aposiopesis,
- apostrophe,
- barbarism,
- bull,
- calembour,
- catachresis,
- chiasmus,
- circumlocution,
- climax,
- conversion,
- corruption,
- ecphonesis,
- emphasis,
- equivocality,
- equivoque,
- exclamation,
- fluff,
- folk etymology,
- gemination,
- grammatical error,
- hypallage,
- hyperbaton,
- hyperbole,
- hypercorrection,
- hyperform,
- infelicity,
- inversion,
- irony,
- jeu de mots,
- litotes,
- logogram,
- logogriph,
- malaprop,
- marrowsky,
- meiosis,
- metagram,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- misconstruction,
- mispronunciation,
- missaying,
- misusage,
- onomatopoeia,
- oxymoron,
- palindrome,
- paregmenon,
- parenthesis,
- paronomasia,
- periphrasis,
- personification,
- play on words,
- pleonasm,
- preterition,
- prolepsis,
- pun,
- punning,
- regression,
- repetition,
- sarcasm,
- simile,
- similitude,
- solecism,
- spoonerism,
- syllepsis,
- symploce,
- synecdoche,
- ungrammaticism,
- wordplay,
- zeugma
- simile
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- a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as') related words >
- accordance,
- affinity,
- agreement,
- alikeness,
- allegory,
- alliance,
- alliteration,
- allusion,
- anacoluthon,
- anadiplosis,
- analogy,
- anaphora,
- anastrophe,
- antiphrasis,
- antithesis,
- antonomasia,
- aping,
- apophasis,
- aporia,
- aposiopesis,
- apostrophe,
- approach,
- approximation,
- assimilation,
- balancing,
- catachresis,
- chiasmus,
- circumlocution,
- climax,
- closeness,
- community,
- comparability,
- comparative anatomy,
- comparative degree,
- comparative grammar,
- comparative judgment,
- comparative linguistics,
- comparative literature,
- comparative method,
- compare,
- comparing,
- comparison,
- conformity,
- confrontation,
- confrontment,
- contrast,
- contrastiveness,
- conversion,
- copying,
- correlation,
- correspondence,
- distinction,
- distinctiveness,
- ecphonesis,
- emphasis,
- exclamation,
- gemination,
- hypallage,
- hyperbaton,
- hyperbole,
- identity,
- imitation,
- inversion,
- irony,
- likeness,
- likening,
- litotes,
- malapropism,
- matching,
- meiosis,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- mimicking,
- nearness,
- onomatopoeia,
- opposing,
- opposition,
- oxymoron,
- parallelism,
- paregmenon,
- parenthesis,
- parity,
- periphrasis,
- personification,
- pleonasm,
- preterition,
- prolepsis,
- proportion,
- regression,
- relation,
- repetition,
- resemblance,
- sameness,
- sarcasm,
- semblance,
- similarity,
- similitude,
- simulation,
- spoonerism,
- syllepsis,
- symploce,
- synecdoche,
- trope of comparison,
- weighing,
- zeugma
- indirection
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- deceitful action that is not straightforward; "he could see through the indirections of diplomats"
- indirect procedure or action; "he tried to find out by indirection" related words >
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- ambages,
- artfulness,
- bend,
- bias,
- branching off,
- cheat,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- circling,
- circuition,
- circuitousness,
- circuitry,
- circularity,
- circulation,
- circumambience,
- circumambiency,
- circumambulation,
- circumflexion,
- circumlocution,
- circummigration,
- circumnavigation,
- corner,
- corruptedness,
- corruption,
- corruptness,
- craft,
- criminality,
- crook,
- crookedness,
- crosswiseness,
- cunning,
- curve,
- deceit,
- deceitfulness,
- declination,
- deflection,
- deflexure,
- departure,
- detour,
- deviance,
- deviancy,
- deviation,
- deviousness,
- diagonality,
- digression,
- dirt,
- discursion,
- dishonesty,
- dishonor,
- divagation,
- divarication,
- divergence,
- diversion,
- dogleg,
- double,
- double-dealing,
- drift,
- drifting,
- dupery,
- duplicity,
- errantry,
- evasiveness,
- excursion,
- excursus,
- exorbitation,
- falseheartedness,
- falseness,
- feloniousness,
- fraud,
- fraudulence,
- fraudulency,
- furtiveness,
- guile,
- gyre,
- gyring,
- hairpin,
- hanky-panky,
- hypocrisy,
- improbity,
- indirectness,
- insidiousness,
- meandering,
- nonconformity,
- obliqueness,
- obliquity,
- orbit,
- orbiting,
- pererration,
- periphrase,
- periphrasis,
- rambling,
- roundaboutness,
- rounding,
- shadiness,
- sheer,
- shift,
- shiftiness,
- shifting,
- shifting course,
- shifting path,
- skew,
- skewness,
- slant,
- slipperiness,
- sneak attack,
- sneakiness,
- spiral,
- spiraling,
- squint,
- straying,
- surreptitiousness,
- sweep,
- swerve,
- swerving,
- swinging,
- tack,
- transverseness,
- treacherousness,
- trickiness,
- turn,
- turning,
- twist,
- unconscientiousness,
- underhandedness,
- unsavoriness,
- unscrupulousness,
- unstraightforwardness,
- vagary,
- variation,
- veer,
- wandering,
- warp,
- wheeling,
- yaw,
- zigzag
- redundancy
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- repetition of an act needlessly
- the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded; "the use of industrial robots created redundancy among workers"
- (electronics) a system design that duplicates components to provide alternatives in case one component fails
- repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission related words >
- EDP,
- abundance,
- amplitude,
- avalanche,
- battology,
- bedizenment,
- bit,
- channel,
- circumambages,
- circumbendibus,
- circumlocution,
- cloud of words,
- communication explosion,
- communication theory,
- copiousness,
- data retrieval,
- data storage,
- decoding,
- deluge,
- diffuseness,
- diffusion,
- diffusiveness,
- duplication,
- duplication of effort,
- effusion,
- effusiveness,
- electronic data processing,
- embarras de richesses,
- embellishment,
- encoding,
- enough,
- entropy,
- excess,
- expletive,
- extravagance,
- extravagancy,
- exuberance,
- fat,
- featherbedding,
- fecundity,
- fertility,
- filling,
- flatulence,
- flood,
- fluency,
- formlessness,
- frill,
- frills,
- frippery,
- gingerbread,
- gush,
- gushing,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- information explosion,
- information theory,
- inundation,
- landslide,
- lavishness,
- logorrhea,
- luxury,
- macrology,
- money to burn,
- more than enough,
- needlessness,
- noise,
- ornamentation,
- outpour,
- overabundance,
- overaccumulation,
- overadornment,
- overage,
- overbounteousness,
- overcopiousness,
- overdose,
- overflow,
- overlap,
- overlavishness,
- overluxuriance,
- overmeasure,
- overmuchness,
- overnumerousness,
- overplentifulness,
- overplenty,
- overplus,
- overpopulation,
- overprofusion,
- oversufficiency,
- oversupply,
- padding,
- palilogy,
- payroll padding,
- periphrase,
- periphrasis,
- plenty,
- pleonasm,
- plethora,
- prodigality,
- productivity,
- profuseness,
- profusion,
- prolificacy,
- prolificity,
- prolixity,
- rampancy,
- rankness,
- redundance,
- reiteration,
- reiterativeness,
- repetition for effect,
- repetitiveness,
- roundabout,
- signal,
- spate,
- stammering,
- stuttering,
- superabundance,
- superfluity,
- superfluousness,
- superflux,
- surplus,
- surplusage,
- talkativeness,
- tautologism,
- tautology,
- teemingness,
- tirade,
- tumidity,
- turgidity,
- unnecessariness,
- verbality,
- verbosity
- metaphor
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- a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity related words >
- accordance,
- agent,
- agreement,
- alikeness,
- allegory,
- alliance,
- alliteration,
- allusion,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- anacoluthon,
- anadiplosis,
- analogue,
- analogy,
- anaphora,
- anastrophe,
- antiphrasis,
- antithesis,
- antonomasia,
- aping,
- apophasis,
- aporia,
- aposiopesis,
- apostrophe,
- approach,
- approximation,
- assimilation,
- backup,
- balancing,
- catachresis,
- change,
- changeling,
- chiasmus,
- circumlocution,
- climax,
- closeness,
- community,
- comparability,
- comparative anatomy,
- comparative degree,
- comparative grammar,
- comparative judgment,
- comparative linguistics,
- comparative literature,
- comparative method,
- compare,
- comparing,
- comparison,
- conformity,
- confrontation,
- confrontment,
- contrast,
- contrastiveness,
- conversion,
- copy,
- copying,
- correlation,
- correspondence,
- counterfeit,
- deputy,
- distinction,
- distinctiveness,
- double,
- dummy,
- ecphonesis,
- emphasis,
- equal,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- exchange,
- exclamation,
- fake,
- figure of speech,
- fill-in,
- gemination,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- hypallage,
- hyperbaton,
- hyperbole,
- identity,
- image,
- imagery,
- imitation,
- inversion,
- irony,
- likeness,
- likening,
- litotes,
- locum tenens,
- makeshift,
- malapropism,
- matching,
- meiosis,
- metonymy,
- mimicking,
- nearness,
- next best thing,
- onomatopoeia,
- opposing,
- opposition,
- oxymoron,
- parallelism,
- paregmenon,
- parenthesis,
- parity,
- periphrasis,
- personification,
- personnel,
- phony,
- pinch hitter,
- pleonasm,
- preterition,
- prolepsis,
- proportion,
- proxy,
- reference,
- regression,
- relation,
- relief,
- repetition,
- replacement,
- representative,
- resemblance,
- reserves,
- ringer,
- sameness,
- sarcasm,
- second string,
- secondary,
- semblance,
- sign,
- similarity,
- simile,
- similitude,
- simulation,
- spares,
- spoonerism,
- stand-in,
- sub,
- substituent,
- substitute,
- substitution,
- succedaneum,
- superseder,
- supplanter,
- surrogate,
- syllepsis,
- symbol,
- symbolism,
- symploce,
- synecdoche,
- third string,
- token,
- trope,
- trope of comparison,
- understudy,
- utility player,
- vicar,
- vice-president,
- vice-regent,
- weighing,
- zeugma
- Byzantine,
- Ferris wheel,
- O-shaped,
- ambages,
- ambagious,
- ambient,
- anfractuous,
- apparent,
- backhanded,
- balled up,
- bypass,
- carousel,
- chubby,
- chute-the-chutes,
- chutes,
- circling,
- circuit,
- circuitous,
- circular,
- circumambages,
- circumambient,
- circumbendibus,
- circumferential,
- circumflex,
- circumfluent,
- circumfluous,
- circumjacent,
- circumlocution,
- circumlocutional,
- circumlocutory,
- collateral,
- complex,
- complicated,
- confounded,
- confused,
- convoluted,
- convolutional,
- cortical,
- crabbed,
- daedal,
- detour,
- deviating,
- deviation,
- deviative,
- devious,
- digression,
- digressive,
- discursive,
- disk,
- elaborate,
- embracing,
- embrangled,
- encircling,
- enclosing,
- encompassing,
- enfolding,
- entangled,
- enveloping,
- environing,
- epidermic,
- evasive,
- excursion,
- excursive,
- exomorphic,
- exterior,
- external,
- extrinsic,
- flexuose,
- flexuous,
- flying horses,
- fouled up,
- fringe,
- helical,
- implicated,
- indirect,
- intricate,
- involute,
- involuted,
- involutional,
- involved,
- jaunt,
- junket,
- knotted,
- labyrinthian,
- labyrinthine,
- long,
- loused up,
- many-faceted,
- matted,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- meandrous,
- merry-go-round,
- messed up,
- mixed up,
- mucked up,
- multifarious,
- neighboring,
- oblique,
- open,
- orbital,
- out,
- out-of-the-way,
- outer,
- outermost,
- outing,
- outlying,
- outmost,
- outside,
- outstanding,
- outward,
- outward-facing,
- peripheral,
- periphrase,
- periphrasis,
- periphrastic,
- perplexed,
- pleonasm,
- plump,
- podgy,
- public,
- pudgy,
- ramified,
- redundancy,
- rivose,
- rivulose,
- roller,
- roller coaster,
- rolling stone,
- roly-poly,
- rotary,
- rotator,
- rotor,
- round,
- round trip,
- roundabout way,
- ruffled,
- runaround,
- rundle,
- sally,
- screwed up,
- seeming,
- seesaw,
- serpentine,
- sinuate,
- sinuose,
- sinuous,
- snaky,
- snarled,
- spiral,
- subtle,
- suburban,
- superficial,
- surface,
- surrounding,
- swing,
- tangled,
- tangly,
- tautology,
- teeter-totter,
- top,
- torsional,
- tortile,
- tortuous,
- traffic circle,
- tubby,
- turning,
- twisted,
- twisting,
- twisty,
- verbality,
- wheel,
- whip,
- whirlabout,
- whirler,
- whirligig,
- whorled,
- winding,
- wrapping,
- wreathlike,
- wreathy
- speech
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- (language) communication by word of mouth; "his speech was garbled"; "he uttered harsh language"; "he recorded the spoken language of the streets"
- the exchange of spoken words; "they were perfectly comfortable together without speech"
- something spoken; "he could hear them uttering merry speeches" related words >
- ESP,
- address,
- after-dinner speech,
- alliteration,
- allocution,
- allusion,
- anacoluthon,
- anadiplosis,
- analogy,
- anaphora,
- anastrophe,
- answer,
- answering,
- antiphrasis,
- antithesis,
- antonomasia,
- apophasis,
- aporia,
- aposiopesis,
- apostrophe,
- articulated,
- articulation,
- blast,
- bull session,
- catachresis,
- chalk talk,
- chiasmus,
- chinfest,
- choice of words,
- circumlocution,
- climax,
- commerce,
- communicating,
- communication,
- communicational,
- communion,
- communional,
- composition,
- confab,
- confabulation,
- congress,
- connection,
- contact,
- conversation,
- conversational,
- converse,
- conversion,
- correspondence,
- dealing,
- dealings,
- debate,
- declamation,
- dialect,
- dialogue,
- diatribe,
- diction,
- discourse,
- disquisition,
- duologue,
- ecphonesis,
- elocution,
- emphasis,
- enunciated,
- enunciation,
- eulogy,
- exchange,
- exclamation,
- exhortation,
- expression,
- filibuster,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal speech,
- formulation,
- funeral oration,
- gemination,
- grammar,
- harangue,
- homily,
- hortatory address,
- hypallage,
- hyperbaton,
- hyperbole,
- idiom,
- inaugural,
- inaugural address,
- information,
- interacting,
- interaction,
- interactional,
- interactive,
- interchange,
- intercommunication,
- intercommunicational,
- intercommunicative,
- intercommunion,
- intercommunional,
- intercourse,
- interplay,
- interresponsive,
- interrogative,
- interrogatory,
- invective,
- inversion,
- irony,
- jargon,
- jeremiad,
- language,
- langue,
- lecture,
- line,
- lingo,
- lingua,
- lingual,
- linguistic,
- linguistic intercourse,
- litotes,
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