Antonyms for periphrasis
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : puh-rif-ruh-sis |
| Phonetic Transcription : pəˈrɪf rə sɪs |
Definition of periphrasis
Origin :- 1530s, from Latin periphrasis "circumlocution," from Greek periphrasis, from periphrazein "speak in a roundabout way," from peri- "round about" (see peri-) + phrazein "to express" (see phrase (n.)).
- As in verbiage : noun repetition, wordiness
- As in redundancy : noun repetition
- As in wordiness : noun excessive in language
- As in circumlocution : noun indirect speech
- By this periphrasis Waverley readily apprehended his portmanteau was intended.
- Extract from : « Waverley » by Sir Walter Scott
- As a periphrasis, the combination in other words is subdisjunctive.
- Extract from : « A Handbook of the English Language » by Robert Gordon Latham
- The periphrasis is a metaphor, and thus has the same life-span as a metaphor.
- Extract from : « Decadence and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas » by Remy de Gourmont
- As a periphrasis the combination in other words is subdisjunctive.
- Extract from : « The English Language » by Robert Gordon Latham
- "Prop of sea-waves' fire," a periphrasis for a woman that bears gold on her arm.
- Extract from : « The story of Burnt Njal » by Anonymous
- "He that hoardeth ocean's fire," a periphrasis for man, Hauskuld of Whiteness.
- Extract from : « The story of Burnt Njal » by Anonymous
- He used antithesis, periphrasis, and climax with great skill.
- Extract from : « From Chaucer to Tennyson » by Henry A. Beers
- If the sense demanded the use of such a word, a periphrasis of 'noble' words must be employed instead.
- Extract from : « Landmarks in French Literature » by G. Lytton Strachey
- Be it remarked that this periphrasis indicated his mother; and that the bread he alluded to is made with a species of leaven.
- Extract from : « Cedar Creek » by Elizabeth Hely Walshe
- The greatest is the making the very dispensation objected to, the periphrasis of his title.
- Extract from : « The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 (of 10) » by Alexander Pope
Synonyms for periphrasis
- attrition
- beating around the bush
- catalogic
- circumambages
- circumlocution
- copiosity
- diffuseness
- diffusion
- discursiveness
- euphemism
- expansiveness
- fecundity
- floridity
- garrulity
- gassiness
- indirectness
- logorrhea
- long-windedness
- loquaciousness
- loquacity
- macrology
- officialese
- overabundance
- periphrase
- periphrasis
- pleonasm
- profusion
- prolixity
- redundancy
- roundabout
- superabundance
- supererogation
- superfluity
- tautology
- verbal evasion
- verbality
- verbiage
- verbigeration
- verbomania
- verboseness
- verbosity
- wordiness
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