EUPHUISM as NOUN

  1. Meaning
    • an elegant style of prose of the Elizabethan period
    • characterized by balance and antithesis and alliteration and extended similes with and allusions to nature and mythology
    Hypernyms(s) euphuism is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
  2. Meaning
    • any artificially elegant style of language
    Hypernyms(s) euphuism is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower