BEAUTIFULLY OBSCURE WORDS
About | New| Feedback | Help | Home | Sitemaps
Reference Corner: helpful guide to help you learn more about language and words
DIRECTORY OF LOGOPHILE LIBRARY
words are categorized by chapters in individual lists or features. Features are by topic & present extensive vocabulary, research, articles & narratives.
Home Page ~ Word List Index ~ Featured Words
Literary, Language, Writing and Words
Obscure, Rare, Unusual and Obsolete
Creative, Deep, Intellectual and Profound
Dark, Melancholic, Mystical and Risqué
The Universe and World We Live In
The Exotic Languages of the World
DISCOVER MORE WORDS
This Site is Part of a Series of Beautiful Words
Books - Blogs - Guides - Narratives ~ Manuals
VOCABULARY GUIDES | VIEW ALL MY GUIDES
SEARCH THIS SITE FOR WORDS
Search site below or use Advanced Search to search the site & content in my vocabulary books.
About | New| Feedback | Help | Home | Sitemaps
Reference Corner: helpful guide to help you learn more about language and words
DIRECTORY OF LOGOPHILE LIBRARY
words are categorized by chapters in individual lists or features. Features are by topic & present extensive vocabulary, research, articles & narratives.
Home Page ~ Word List Index ~ Featured Words
Literary, Language, Writing and Words
Obscure, Rare, Unusual and Obsolete
Creative, Deep, Intellectual and Profound
Dark, Melancholic, Mystical and Risqué
The Universe and World We Live In
The Exotic Languages of the World
DISCOVER MORE WORDS
This Site is Part of a Series of Beautiful Words
Books - Blogs - Guides - Narratives ~ Manuals
VOCABULARY GUIDES | VIEW ALL MY GUIDES
SEARCH THIS SITE FOR WORDS
Search site below or use Advanced Search to search the site & content in my vocabulary books.
TOUCH OF THE INTELLECT
Knowledge ~ Profound ~ Academics
Communication ~ Language ~ Rhetoric Vocabulary ~ Creativity ~ Technology
The Intellect Home Page
Thinking allows us to make sense of, interpret, represent or model the world we experience, and to make predictions about that world. It is therefore key to manifesting action from the needs, objectives, and desires that come from planning and strategizing.
FROM THOUGHT COMES COMMUNICATION
FROM THOUGHT COMES COMMUNICATION
THE ART OF DISCOURSE and
COMMUNICATION
THE ART OF COMMUNICATION
Communication and Discussion - Home
Communication is the Foundation of Discourse
Debate Club is Not for Shilly-Shallying
Blistering Bafflegab From a Blatherskite
Lyrical Melody of Harmony and Sound
A Bombastic Crescendo of Verbosity
Echoes of Words in a Cavern of Sound
The Short and Sweet of It
Punctuating a Pugnacious Point
Crafting of a Cryptic Circumlocution
Grandiloquence for a Grandstanding Newbie
How Grandiloquent Can a Cheeky Logophile Be?
ASSOCIATED WEBSITES AND DOWNLOADS
Dictionary of Creativity - Glossary of Thought
Glossary of the Mind - Literary Vocabulary
Cognitive Vocabulary
SPECIAL FEATURE: RHETORICAL RHAPSODY
A Deeper Look Into Rhetorical Devices
Download This Feature as a Word Guide
DIRECTORY OF RHETORICAL DEVICES
GLOSSARIES OF RHETORIC
See Also: Literary Devices | Poetic Devices
A Deeper Look Into Rhetorical Devices
Download This Feature as a Word Guide
DIRECTORY OF RHETORICAL DEVICES
GLOSSARIES OF RHETORIC
See Also: Literary Devices | Poetic Devices
BOMBASTIC CRESCENDO
OF VERBOSITY
KEY WORDS:
BOMBASTIC - of a person, their language or writing) showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous.
PLEONASM - is the use of more words or parts of words than are necessary or sufficient for clear expression: for example black darkness or burning fire. It can mean a word or phrase which is useless, clichéd, or repetitive, but also simply an unremarkable use of idiom. Sometimes it serves the same function as rhetorical repetition to reinforce an idea, contention or question. It can serve as a redundancy check; if a word is unknown, misunderstood, misheard, or if there is interference in the communication, it can help ensure that the meaning is conveyed even if some of the words are lost. From the Ancient Greek πλεονασμός, pleonasmós, from πλέον, pleon, meaning 'more; too much')
VERBOSITY - state or character of being verbose: employment of a superabundance of words; the use of more words than are necessary; wordiness; prolixity: said either of a speaker or writer, or of what is said or written.
BOMBASTIC - of a person, their language or writing) showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous.
PLEONASM - is the use of more words or parts of words than are necessary or sufficient for clear expression: for example black darkness or burning fire. It can mean a word or phrase which is useless, clichéd, or repetitive, but also simply an unremarkable use of idiom. Sometimes it serves the same function as rhetorical repetition to reinforce an idea, contention or question. It can serve as a redundancy check; if a word is unknown, misunderstood, misheard, or if there is interference in the communication, it can help ensure that the meaning is conveyed even if some of the words are lost. From the Ancient Greek πλεονασμός, pleonasmós, from πλέον, pleon, meaning 'more; too much')
VERBOSITY - state or character of being verbose: employment of a superabundance of words; the use of more words than are necessary; wordiness; prolixity: said either of a speaker or writer, or of what is said or written.
A BOOM OF WORDS
AMPOULÉ - French for exaggerated; over the top language
BATTOLOGIZE - repeat a word so incessantly in conversation that it loses all meaning and impact.
BLOVIATE - to speak or write pompously and windily.
I
CATASTROPHIZE - to talk about an issue or event as worse than it actually is.
CHEVILLE - unnecessary word used to extend line of verse
CIRCUMLOCUTION - when a writer uses exaggeratedly long and complex sentences in order to convey a meaning that could have been made in a short and simple sentence.
DECLAMATORY - vehement or impassioned in expression
DIFFUSE - being at once verbose and ill-organized
DRIVELOUS - composed of drivel; nonsensical; meaningless; rubbish.
EFFUSIVENESS - marked by the expression of great or excessive emotion or enthusiasm
EXPATIATE - to speak or write at length (used with on or upon)
FLOWERY - showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms. Also, flatulent.
FUSTIAN - pompous, inflated or pretentious writing or speech. quotations. Middle English fustian, from Old French fustaine, from Medieval Latin fustaneum, probably from Latin fustis (“club; (medieval use) tree trunk”).
GARRULOUS - excessively talkative, especially on trivial matters
GRANDILOQUENCE - given to using language in a showy way by using an excessive amount ofp difficult words to impress others; bombastic; turgid. From the Late 16th century from Latin grandiloquus, literally ‘grand-speaking’, from grandis ‘grand’ + loqui meaning ‘speak’. The ending was altered in English by association with eloquent.
HARANGUE - a lengthy and intense speech, lecture, or spoken attack
HISTRIONICS - a deliberate display of excessive emotions to achieve a certain effect. Attention seeking dramatics.
HOLOPHRASIS - the expression of several ideas in a single word or phrase.
LEXIPHANIC - using bombastic or pretentious wording or language.
LOGORRHEIC - of, pertaining to, or exhibiting logorrhea, the excessive flow of words
LOQUACIOUS - talkative or chatty, especially of persons given to excess conversation
MACROLOGY - long and tedious talk lacking in substance; superfluity of words.
MAHTIPONTINEN - grandiloquent, bombastic or pompous
PANCHRESTON - a broad thesis that claims to cover the entire subject but usually ends up as a gross oversimplification.
POLEMIC - a strong attack or argument against a controversial subject.
PALAVEROUS - abounding in words or containing more words than necessary
PAROEMION - excessive alliteration. "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
PARRHESIA - effectively means the act of speaking about everything, without any limitation. One might think of it as freedom of speech, but in fact it is something more complex. -In Greek, the word “parrhesia” is a combination of the words “everything” and “speech.”
PERISSOLOGY - Use of more words than are necessary; redundancy or superfluity of expression” – A useful word for editors.
PERORATE - to speak at length.
POMPOUS - affectedly grand, solemn or self-important. From Middle English pompous, from Old French pompeux, from Late Latin pomposus, from Latin pompa (“pomp”), from Ancient Greek πομπή (pompḗ, “a sending, a solemn procession, pomp”), from πέμπω (pémpō, “I send”). Doublet of pomposo.
PRATE - to talk endlessly with no obvious points. People who do this tend to like to hear themselves talk.
PROLIXITY - unduly prolonged or drawn out; too long; marked by or using an excess of words
verbose
RONOMONTADE - vainglorious boasting and bragging.
SESQUIPEDALIAN - someone given to using long words
TAUTOLOGOUS - abounding in words or containing more words than necessary
TAUTOLOGY - needlessly repeating a thought or idea.
TOTIDEM VERBIS - too many words spoken or written.
TUMESCENT - pompous or pretentious language. From Latin present participle of ‘tumescere’ meaning “to swell up.”
TURGID - (of language or style) tediously pompous or bombastic. From the Early 17th century from Latin turgidus, from turgere meaning ‘to swell’.
WITZELSUCHT - is a rare neurological disorder whose sufferers have an excessive tendency to tell pointless stories or inappropriate jokes and puns.
WORDMONGER - a speaker who uses words pretentiously or with careless disregard to meaning.
