LEXIPHANICISM

Meaning of LEXIPHANICISM in English

noun the use of pretentious words, language, or style.

Webster English vocab. Английский словарь Webster. 2012

LEXIPHANICISM — ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈfanəˌsizəm noun ( -s ) archaic : pretentious phraseology or an instance or example of such phraseology
Webster's New International English Dictionary
LEXIPHANICISM — (n.) The use of pretentious words, language, or style.
Английский словарь Webster
LEXIPHANICISM — ( n. ) The use of pretentious words, language, or style.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
SESQUIPEDALIAN — Synonyms and related words : Latinate, a mile long, awkward, bombastic, cramped, cumbrous, elephantine, extensive, far-flung, far-reaching, fargoing, forced, formal, …
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SENSATIONALISM — Synonyms and related words : Barnumism, Thespian art, affectation, aggrandizement, amateur theatricals, amplification, ballyhoo, bedizenment, big talk, blatancy, blood and …
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RHETORIC — Synonyms and related words : Barnumism, affectation, articulateness, bedizenment, big talk, bluster, bombast, choice of words, command of language, command …
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RHAPSODY — Synonyms and related words : classic, classical music, concert music, concertino, concerto, concerto grosso, drool, fustian, heaven, highfalutin, lexiphanicism, longhair …
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RANT
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PRETENSION — Synonyms and related words : Barnumism, acting, affectation, affectedness, airs, airs and graces, alibi, ambitions, ambitiousness, apology, appearance, appurtenance, artificiality, …
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POMPOSITY — Synonyms and related words : Barnumism, affectation, arrogance, assurance, assuredness, bedizenment, belief, big talk, buckram, ceremonial, ceremoniousness, ceremony, certitude, cocksureness, …
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POLYSYLLABLE — Synonyms and related words : antonym, articulation, expression, free form, grandiloquence, hard word, homograph, homonym, homophone, jawbreaker, lexeme, lexiphanicism, linguistic …
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OSTENTATION — Synonyms and related words : Barnumism, acting, affectation, appearance, arabesque, arrantness, attitudinizing, baroque, baroqueness, bedizenment, big talk, blatancy, bluff, bluffing, …
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MOUTHFUL — Synonyms and related words : bellyful, bit, bite, bolus, bumper, capacity, champ, charge, chaw, chew, chomp, chunk, complement, cram, crush, …
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INFLATION — Synonyms and related words : Barnumism, access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, addition, advance, affectation, aggrandizement, amplification, appreciation, ascent, augmentation, …
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HIGHFALUTIN — Synonyms and related words : Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, ambitious, arrogant, aureate, bedizened, big, big-sounding, bombastic, classy, condescending, convoluted, declamatory, domineering, …
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GRANDILOQUENCE — Synonyms and related words : affectation, aggrandizement, amplification, ballyhoo, big talk, blowing up, burlesque, caricature, command of language, dilatation, dilation, …
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GAUDINESS — Synonyms and related words : Barnumism, affectation, apparent character, appearances, arsenic green, bedizenment, beggarliness, big talk, blatancy, brazenness, cheapness, clashing …
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FLATULENCE
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CONVOLUTION — Synonyms and related words : Barnumism, aduncity, affectation, aquilinity, arachnoid, arbor vitae, arching, archipallium, arcuation, bedizenment, between brain, big talk, …
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BOMBAST — Synonyms and related words : absurdity, amphigory, babble, babblement, balderdash, bibble-babble, blabber, blather, bluster, boast, boastfulness, boasting, bombastry, brag, braggadocio, …
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BIG TALK — Synonyms and related words : Barnumism, affectation, aggrandizement, amplification, ballyhoo, bedizenment, blowing up, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, burlesque, caricature, convolution, dilatation, …
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AFFECTATION — Synonyms and related words : Barnumism, Gongorism, act, acting, action, actions, activity, acts, address, affectedness, air, airs, appearance, artfulness, artifice, …
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