magniloquence
/maɡˈnɪləkwəns
/noun [mass noun]
Use of high-flown language: there was no trace of magniloquence...
- ‘I got all that I want in life,’ Toogood declares with typical magniloquence in the album's penultimate track.
- She may not have been quite humourless in the magniloquence of her portrait of her patron Dr Boucard.
- Goethe's manner of proceeding, he declared, is at bottom "that of parody," and the turn of a straw " would set the reader laughing at these farm-horses transformed into coursers, these village innkeepers and apothecaries who speak with the magniloquence of a Ulysses or a Nestor.
Synonyms
grandiloquence, loftiness, grandiosity, pompousness, pomposity, pretentiousness, bombast, rhetoric, turgidity, boastfulness, pretension, ornateness
rare orotundity, fustian, braggadocio
Rhymes
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