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periphrasisnoun the use of too many words to express an ideacongressional hearings into the Watergate scandal were marked by an orgy of periphrasis, the expression "at this point in time" being a memorable example circumlocution, diffuseness, diffusion, garrulity, garrulousness, logorrhea, long-windedness, prolixity, redundancy, verbalism, verbiage, verboseness, verbosity, windiness, wordage, wordiness circuitousness, circularity, digressivenesspleonasm, tautologyreiteration, repetition, repetitiousness, repetitivenessembellishment, embroidering, exaggeration, hyperbole, overstatement brevity, briefness, compactness, conciseness, concision, crispness, pithiness, succinctness, terseness in 1533 |