expressive style vs digressiveness

digressiveness vs expressive style

expressive style and digressiveness both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
expressive style	Yes	No	No	No
digressiveness	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, digressiveness is a hyponym of expressive style; that is, digressiveness is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than expressive style:

expressive style: a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period
digressiveness: The characteristic quality of poetry that is marked by departure from the subject, course, or idea at hand; or by an exploration of a different or unrelated concern.

Other hyponyms of expressive style include allegory, analysis, bathos, black humor, black humour, device, eloquence, fluency, smoothness, euphuism, flatness, expression, formulation, grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, rhetoric, headlinese, jargon, journalese, legalese, delivery, manner of speaking, speech, officialese, pathos, prose, rhetoric, coarseness, saltiness, self-expression, sesquipedality, terseness, turn of expression, turn of phrase, vein, verboseness, verbosity, genre, literary genre, writing style, poetry.

expressive style (noun)	digressiveness (noun)
a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period	The characteristic quality of poetry that is marked by departure from the subject, course, or idea at hand; or by an exploration of a different or unrelated concern.

Difference between expressive style and digressiveness

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