expressive style vs self-expression

self-expression vs expressive style

expressive style and self-expression both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
expressive style	Yes	No	No	No
self-expression	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, self-expression is a hyponym of expressive style; that is, self-expression 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
self-expression: the expression of one's individuality (usually through creative activities)

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, officialese, pathos, prose, rhetoric, coarseness, saltiness, sesquipedality, terseness, turn of expression, turn of phrase, vein, verboseness, verbosity, genre, literary genre, writing style, poetry, digressiveness.

expressive style (noun)	self-expression (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 expression of one's individuality (usually through creative activities)

Difference between expressive style and self-expression

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