Definition for Periphrasis:

• Circumlocution ; use of many words to express the sense of one.

Synonyms for Periphrasis:

• n.

  •
  • skirt,
  • hedge,
  • evade,
  • mince (your) words,
  • parry,
  • obliqueness,
  • get at,
  • imply,
  • convey,
  • intimate.
  •circumlocution (noun)
  • diffuseness,
  • roundabout,
  • ambiguity,
  • euphemism,
  • wordiness,
  • evasion,
  • pleonasm,
  • prolixity.
  •redundancy (noun)
  • overabundance,
  • profusion,
  • superfluity,
  • attrition,
  • superabundance.
  •repetition (noun)
  • redundancy.
  •verbiage (noun)
  • loquacity.
  •wordiness (noun)
  • catalogic,
  • logorrhea,
  • fecundity,
  • verbomania,
  • verbigeration,
  • Macrology,
  • garrulity,
  • loquaciousness,
  • diffusion,
  • officialese.

• Other synonyms:

  •n.
  • circumlocution,
  • discursiveness,
  • expansiveness,
  • indirectness,
  • long-windedness,
  • supererogation,
  • tautology,
  • verbiage,
  • verboseness,
  • verbosity,
  • Floridity,
  • Periphrase,
  • Periphrases,
  • Verbality,
  • tautologies,
  • roundabouts,
  • gassiness,
  • verbal evasion,
  • beating around the bush,
  • circumambages,
  • copiosity,
  • over-abundance.

Antonyms for Periphrasis:

• n.

  • circumlocution
    directness, straightforwardness, terseness, conciseness.
  • redundancy
    lack.
  • Other antonyms:
    condensation, pithiness, shortness, compression, plainness.

Periphrasis Sentence Examples:

• The story does not lack of detail, though it is noteworthy that Petrarch, in his " Trionfo d'Amore," decently veils the victim in a periphrasis.

• The periphrasis is generally meaningless.