Euphuism

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  • noun. An affectedly elegant literary style of the late 1500s and early 1600s, characterized by elaborate alliteration, antitheses, and similes.
  • noun. Affected elegance of language.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In English literature, an affected literary style, originating in the fifteenth century, characterized by a wide vocabulary, alliteration, consonance, verbal antithesis, and odd combinations of words.
  • noun. Synonyms This word is sometimes confounded with euphemism and euphony. It has nothing to do with either.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. An affectation of excessive elegance and refinement of language; high-flown diction.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An ornate style of writing (in Elizabethan England) marked by the excessive use of alliteration, antithesis and mythological similes.
  • noun. An example of euphuism.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. 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
  • noun. any artificially elegant style of language
    • Word Usage
    "Al – Saj’a, the fine style or style fleuri, also termed Al – Badí‘a, or euphuism, is the basis of all"
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    prose  
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    Gongorism  affectation  affectedness  artfulness  artifice  
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