euphuism
91image — Synonyms and related words: Doppelganger, Vorstellung, abstract, abstraction, adumbrate, affectation, affectedness, airs, airs and graces, allusion, ally, altarpiece, alter ego, analogon, analogue, angle, apparition, appearance, apprehension,… …
92imagery — Synonyms and related words: Vorstellung, allusion, alphabet, apparition, art, asiaticism, blueprint, brainchild, bubble, cameo, catalog, cataloging, character, character sketch, charactering, characterization, chart, chimera, choreography,… …
93manner of speaking — Synonyms and related words: adjectival phrase, affectation, asiaticism, clause, command of language, construction, device, euphuism, exaggeration, expression, expression of ideas, fashion, feeling for words, figurative language, figurativeness,… …
94mannerism — Synonyms and related words: Gongorism, affectation, affectedness, airs, airs and graces, aroma, artfulness, artifice, artificiality, attribute, badge, brand, cachet, cast, character, characteristic, command of language, configuration, cut,… …
95ornament — Synonyms and related words: acciaccatura, add, adjoin, adjunct, adorn, adornment, affix, agglutinate, anacrusis, annex, append, appoggiatura, arabesque, arrangement, array, asiaticism, attach, bass passage, beauties, beautify, bedeck, bedizen,… …
96pedantry — Synonyms and related words: bibliolatry, bibliomania, bluestockingism, book learning, book madness, bookiness, bookishness, booklore, ceremonialism, classical scholarship, classicism, culture, donnishness, elegance, eruditeness, erudition,… …
97preciosity — Synonyms and related words: Gongorism, affectation, affectedness, artfulness, artifice, artificiality, ceremonialism, elegance, euphemism, euphuism, exquisiteness, formalism, formality, goody goodness, goody goodyism, hyperelegance, legalism,… …
98purple passage — Synonyms and related words: adornment, asiaticism, beauties, colors, colors of rhetoric, device, elegant variation, embellishment, embroidery, euphuism, figurative language, figurativeness, figure, figure of speech, fine writing, floridity,… …
99LYLY, JOHN — English dramatist, born in Kent; was the author of nine plays on classical subjects, written for the court, which were preceded in 1579 by his once famous Euphues, or Anatomy of Wit, followed by a second part next year, and entitled Euphues… …
100eufuismo — eu·fu·ì·smo s.m. TS lett. nell Inghilterra del XVI sec., corrente letteraria caratterizzata da manierismo e preziosismo formale {{line}} {{/line}} DATA: 1823. ETIMO: dall ingl. euphuism, der. di Euphues, titolo di un opera di J. Lyly …
