rhetoricalness — index bombast Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
rhetoricalness — rhe·tor·i·cal·ness … English syllables
rhetoricalness — rə̇kəlnə̇s, rēk noun ( es) : the condition of being rhetorical … Useful english dictionary
rhetorical — rhetorically, adv. rhetoricalness n. /ri tawr i keuhl, tor /, adj. 1. used for, belonging to, or concerned with mere style or effect. 2. marked by or tending to use bombast. 3. of, concerned with, or having the nature of rhetoric. [1470 80; < L… … Universalium
bombast — I noun affectation, boastfulness, boasting, braggery, chatter, declamation, diatribe, embellishment, empty talk, enlargement, euphemism, exaggeration, expansion, flatulence, floridness, fustian, garnishing, grandiloquence, grandiosity, harangue,… … Law dictionary
affectation — Synonyms and related words: Barnumism, Gongorism, act, acting, action, actions, activity, acts, address, affectedness, air, airs, appearance, artfulness, artifice, artificiality, attitudinizing, bearing, bedizenment, behavior, behavior pattern,… … Moby Thesaurus
big talk — Synonyms and related words: Barnumism, affectation, aggrandizement, amplification, ballyhoo, bedizenment, blowing up, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, burlesque, caricature, convolution, dilatation, dilation, enhancement, enlargement, exaggerating,… … Moby Thesaurus
convolution — Synonyms and related words: Barnumism, aduncity, affectation, aquilinity, arachnoid, arbor vitae, arching, archipallium, arcuation, bedizenment, between brain, big talk, brain stem, cerebellar hemispheres, cerebellum, cerebral cortex,… … Moby Thesaurus
flatulence — Synonyms and related words: Barnumism, aeriness, affectation, bedizenment, big talk, bloat, bloatedness, bloating, blowing up, convolution, diastole, dilatation, dilation, distension, dropsy, edema, ethereality, fart, flashiness, flatulency,… … Moby Thesaurus
gaudiness — Synonyms and related words: Barnumism, affectation, apparent character, appearances, arsenic green, bedizenment, beggarliness, big talk, blatancy, brazenness, cheapness, clashing colors, coarseness, color clash, colorfulness, contemptibleness,… … Moby Thesaurus