expressive style vs sesquipedality

sesquipedality vs expressive style

expressive style and sesquipedality both are nouns.

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

As nouns, sesquipedality is a hyponym of expressive style; that is, sesquipedality 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
sesquipedality: using long words

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, self-expression, terseness, turn of expression, turn of phrase, vein, verboseness, verbosity, genre, literary genre, writing style, poetry, digressiveness.

expressive style (noun)	sesquipedality (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 long words

Difference between expressive style and sesquipedality

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