expressive style vs euphuism

euphuism vs expressive style

expressive style and euphuism both are nouns.

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

As nouns, euphuism is a hyponym of expressive style; that is, euphuism 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
euphuism: any artificially elegant style of language

Other hyponyms of expressive style include allegory, analysis, bathos, black humor, black humour, device, eloquence, fluency, smoothness, 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, digressiveness.

expressive style (noun)	euphuism (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	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
	any artificially elegant style of language

Difference between expressive style and euphuism

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