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EUPHUISM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("euphuism" is a kind of...):
prose (ordinary writing as distinguished from verse)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Any artificially elegant style of language
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("euphuism" is a kind of...):
expressive style; style (a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "euphuism"):
Gongorism (an affected elegance of style that was introduced into Spanish literature by the poet Gongora)
