euphuism
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
any artificially elegant style of language
Types & categories
- expressive style hypernym
- Gongorism hyponym
Sense 2 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
Types & categories
- prose hypernym
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | expressive style |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | Gongorism |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | prose |