expressive style vs legalese

legalese vs expressive style

expressive style and legalese both are nouns.

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

As nouns, legalese is a hyponym of expressive style; that is, legalese 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
legalese: a style that uses the abstruse technical vocabulary of the law

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, headlinese, jargon, journalese, 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)	legalese (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	a style that uses the abstruse technical vocabulary of the law

Difference between expressive style and legalese

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