Pompously embellished language.
synonyms: flatulence, turgidness.
Roget 192:
size,
magnitude,
dimension,
bulk,
volume;
largeness
etc.
adj.;
greatness
etc.
(of quantity)
31;
expanse
etc.
(space)
180;
amplitude,
mass;
proportions.
capacity,
tonnage,
tunnage;
cordage;
caliber,
scantling.
turgidity
etc.
(expansion)
194;
corpulence,
obesity;
plumpness
etc.
adj.;
embonpoint,
corporation,
flesh and blood,
lustihood.
hugeness
etc.
adj.;
enormity,
immensity,
monstrosity.
giant,
Brobdingnagian,
Antaeus,
Goliath,
Gog and Magog,
Gargantua,
monster,
mammoth,
Cyclops;
cachalot,
whale,
porpoise,
behemoth,
leviathan,
elephant,
hippopotamus;
colossus;
tun,
cord,
lump,
bulk,
block,
loaf,
mass,
swad,
clod,
nugget,
bushel,
thumper,
whooper,
spanker,
strapper;
Triton among the minnows"
[Coriolanus].
mountain,
mound;
heap
etc.
(assemblage)
72.
largest portion
etc.
50;
full size,
life size.
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Roget 194:
expansion;
increase of size
etc.
35;
enlargement,
extension,
augmentation;
amplification,
ampliation†;
aggrandizement,
spread,
increment,
growth,
development,
pullulation,
swell,
dilation,
rarefaction;
turgescence†,
turgidness,
turgidity;
dispansion†;
obesity
etc.
(size)
192;
hydrocephalus,
hydrophthalmus [Med.];
dropsy,
tumefaction,
intumescence,
swelling,
tumor,
diastole,
distension;
puffing,
puffiness;
inflation;
pandiculation†.
dilatability,
expansibility.
germination,
growth,
upgrowth†;
accretion
etc.
35;
budding,
gemmation†.
overgrowth,
overdistension†;
hypertrophy,
tympany†.
bulb
etc.
(convexity)
250;
plumper;
superiority of size.
[expansion of the universe]
big bang;
Hubble constant.
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Roget 577:
ornament;
floridness c†.
adj..
turgidity,
turgescence†;
altiloquence
etc.
adj.†;
declamation,
teratology†;
well-rounded periods;
elegance
etc.
578;
orotundity.
inversion,
antithesis,
alliteration,
paronomasia;
figurativeness
etc.
(metaphor)
521.
flourish;
flowers of speech,
flowers of rhetoric;
frills of style,
euphuism†,
euphemism.
big-sounding words,
high-sounding words;
macrology†,
sesquipedalia verba [Lat.],
Alexandrine;
inflation,
pretension;
rant,
bombast,
fustian,
prose run mad;
fine writing;
sesquipedality†;
Minerva press.
phrasemonger;
euphuist†,
euphemist.
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