magniloquence

1. 1.

   high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation

   “the grandiosity of his prose”

   “an excessive ornateness of language”

   Synonymsgrandiosityornatenessgrandiloquencerhetoric

   Broaderexpressive style

   Narrowerflourishbombast

Other forms of magniloquence

plural

magniloquences·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about magniloquence

What does magniloquence mean?

magniloquence means "high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation".

How many syllables are in magniloquence?

magniloquence has 4 syllables: mag-ni-loq-uence. The stress falls on "ni".

What is another word for magniloquence?

Close synonyms include grandiosity, ornateness, grandiloquence, rhetoric. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is magniloquence a common word?

magniloquence is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.