expressive style vs headlinese

headlinese vs expressive style

expressive style and headlinese both are nouns.

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

As nouns, headlinese is a hyponym of expressive style; that is, headlinese 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
headlinese: using the abbreviated style of headline writers

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, 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)	headlinese (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	using the abbreviated style of headline writers

Difference between expressive style and headlinese

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