Circumlocution synonyms

sʉrkəmlōkyu′shən

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periphrasis
The use of circumlocution.
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verbal evasion
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conciseness (antonym)
The property of being concise, succinctness.
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ambage
Roundabout, indirect ways of talking or doing things
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wordiness (related)
The excessive, often unnecessary, use of words in a sentence.
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euphemism
A mild, indirect, or vague term for one that is considered harsh, blunt, or offensive:
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periphrase
(Rhetoric) The use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; a roundabout, or indirect, way of speaking; circumlocution.
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roundabout
(Chiefly UK, New Zealand and Australia) A road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
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verbality
Proficiency or fluency in the use of words.
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verbiage
(US) The manner in which something is expressed in words;
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winding
The action or effect of a person or thing that winds
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directness (antonym)
The state or quality of being direct.
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straightforwardness (antonym)
The state or quality of being straightforward.
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terseness (antonym)
The characteristic of being terse.
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indirect expression
an indirect way of expressing something
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phraseology (related)
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pedantry (related)
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colloquialism (related)
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redundancy
(Chiefly UK, Australia, New Zealand) The state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary; the dismissal of such an employee; a layoff.
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Find another word for circumlocution. In this page you can discover 20 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for circumlocution, like: periphrasis, verbal evasion, conciseness, ambage, rambling, wordiness, euphemism, periphrase, roundabout, verbality and verbiage.
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Circumlocution Sentence Examples

  • His prose writings gained great reputation in their own day, and long afterwards, but are disfigured by apparent straining after effect, and by frequent puerility and circumlocution.

  • Swift inoculated the Scriblerus Club with his own hatred of pedantry, cant and circumlocution.

  • (6) No marginal notes at all to be affixed, but only for the explanation of the Hebrew or Greek words which cannot, without some circumlocution, so briefly and fitly be expressed in the text.

  • 9 The phrase Mal'akh Yahweh may have been originally a courtly circumlocution for the Divine King; but it readily became a means of avoiding crude anthropomorphism, and later on, when the angels were classified, the Mal'akh Yahweh came to mean an angel of distinguished rank.

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