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单词 ambagiosity
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ambagiosityn.

Brit. /amˌbeɪdʒɪˈɒsᵻti/, U.S. /æmˌbeɪdʒiˈɑsədi/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: ambagious adj., -osity suffix.
Etymology: < ambagious adj. (see -osity suffix), after e.g. verbosity n.
literary.
Indirectness of language or writing; circumlocution; (also) verbosity.In quot. 1912 humorous, as an example of an obscure, literary word.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > indirect action or process > [noun]
circumquaque1546
circumduction1602
circumambulation1606
circuitya1626
indirectness1628
side wind1648
circumbendibus1681
ambagiosity1819
circumambulating1837
ambagiousness1867
circuitousness1869
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > periphrasis or circumlocution
circumlocution?1518
ambage1532
periphrasis1533
circuition1542
circuit1552
notation1555
compassing1580
periphrase1589
ambush1601
encompassment1604
circumambulation1606
circling1623
perambulationa1652
roundaboutness1810
roundaboutation1812
ambagiosity1819
circumambulating1837
peripherization1926
1819 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) III. 419 Without any..ambagiosity, circumlocution, or needless, superfluous and unnecessary roundabout forms of speech.
1912 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. Feb. 322 [Purporting to be Robert Browning, discussing his poem Sordello.] If that has n't got Henry James and the Sherman Law skinned ninety-two ways at once in the line of periphrastic ambagiosity and nubiferous obfuscation, I'll go in for vitrified diaphaneity from this time on.
1955 E. Jones Sigmund Freud II. xv. 401 The fluency, however, never became ambagiosity; on the contrary, the ease and grace of his Viennese style are equalled only by the conciseness of expression.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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