expressive style vs grandiloquence

grandiloquence vs expressive style

expressive style and grandiloquence both are nouns.

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

As nouns, grandiloquence is a hyponym of expressive style; that is, grandiloquence 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
grandiloquence: high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation

Other hyponyms of expressive style include allegory, analysis, bathos, black humor, black humour, device, eloquence, fluency, smoothness, euphuism, flatness, expression, formulation, 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)	grandiloquence (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	high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation

Difference between expressive style and grandiloquence

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