rhetoricalness

rhetoricalness
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  • Rhetoricalness — Rhetorical Rhe*tor ic*al, a. [L. rhetoricus, Gr. ????. See {Rhetoric}.] Of or pertaining to rhetoric; according to, or exhibiting, rhetoric; oratorical; as, the rhetorical art; a rhetorical treatise; a rhetorical flourish. [1913 Webster] They… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • rhetoricalness — rhe·tor·i·cal·ness …   English syllables

  • rhetoricalness — rə̇kəlnə̇s, rēk noun ( es) : the condition of being rhetorical …   Useful english dictionary

  • rhetorical — rhetorically, adv. rhetoricalness n. /ri tawr i keuhl, tor /, adj. 1. used for, belonging to, or concerned with mere style or effect. 2. marked by or tending to use bombast. 3. of, concerned with, or having the nature of rhetoric. [1470 80; < L… …   Universalium

  • bombast — I noun affectation, boastfulness, boasting, braggery, chatter, declamation, diatribe, embellishment, empty talk, enlargement, euphemism, exaggeration, expansion, flatulence, floridness, fustian, garnishing, grandiloquence, grandiosity, harangue,… …   Law dictionary

  • affectation — Synonyms and related words: Barnumism, Gongorism, act, acting, action, actions, activity, acts, address, affectedness, air, airs, appearance, artfulness, artifice, artificiality, attitudinizing, bearing, bedizenment, behavior, behavior pattern,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • big talk — Synonyms and related words: Barnumism, affectation, aggrandizement, amplification, ballyhoo, bedizenment, blowing up, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, burlesque, caricature, convolution, dilatation, dilation, enhancement, enlargement, exaggerating,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • convolution — Synonyms and related words: Barnumism, aduncity, affectation, aquilinity, arachnoid, arbor vitae, arching, archipallium, arcuation, bedizenment, between brain, big talk, brain stem, cerebellar hemispheres, cerebellum, cerebral cortex,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • flatulence — Synonyms and related words: Barnumism, aeriness, affectation, bedizenment, big talk, bloat, bloatedness, bloating, blowing up, convolution, diastole, dilatation, dilation, distension, dropsy, edema, ethereality, fart, flashiness, flatulency,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • gaudiness — Synonyms and related words: Barnumism, affectation, apparent character, appearances, arsenic green, bedizenment, beggarliness, big talk, blatancy, brazenness, cheapness, clashing colors, coarseness, color clash, colorfulness, contemptibleness,… …   Moby Thesaurus

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