expressive style vs grandiosity

grandiosity vs expressive style

expressive style and grandiosity both are nouns.

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

As nouns, grandiosity is a hyponym of expressive style; that is, grandiosity 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
grandiosity: 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, grandiloquence, 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)	grandiosity (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 grandiosity

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