expressive style vs officialese

officialese vs expressive style

expressive style and officialese both are nouns.

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

As nouns, officialese is a hyponym of expressive style; that is, officialese 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
officialese: the style of writing characteristic of some government officials: formal and obscure

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, legalese, delivery, manner of speaking, speech, 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)	officialese (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 style of writing characteristic of some government officials: formal and obscure

Difference between expressive style and officialese

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