expressive style vs smoothness

smoothness vs expressive style

expressive style and smoothness both are nouns.

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

As nouns, smoothness is a hyponym of expressive style; that is, smoothness 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
smoothness: powerful and effective language

Other hyponyms of expressive style include allegory, analysis, bathos, black humor, black humour, device, eloquence, fluency, 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, sesquipedality, terseness, turn of expression, turn of phrase, vein, verboseness, verbosity, genre, literary genre, writing style, poetry, digressiveness.

expressive style (noun)	smoothness (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 texture without roughness; smooth to the touch
	the quality of having a level and even surface
	the quality of being free from errors or interruptions
	the quality of being bland and gracious or ingratiating in manner
	powerful and effective language

Difference between expressive style and smoothness

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