expressive style vs flatness

flatness vs expressive style

expressive style and flatness both are nouns.

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

As nouns, flatness is a hyponym of expressive style; that is, flatness 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
flatness: a want of animation or brilliance

Other hyponyms of expressive style include allegory, analysis, bathos, black humor, black humour, device, eloquence, fluency, smoothness, euphuism, 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)	flatness (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 property of having two dimensions
	inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy
	the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss
	a deficiency in flavor
	a want of animation or brilliance

Difference between expressive style and flatness

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