expressive style vs verbosity

verbosity vs expressive style

expressive style and verbosity both are nouns.

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

As nouns, verbosity is a hyponym of expressive style; that is, verbosity 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
verbosity: an expressive style that uses excessive or empty 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, sesquipedality, terseness, turn of expression, turn of phrase, vein, verboseness, genre, literary genre, writing style, poetry, digressiveness.

expressive style (noun)	verbosity (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	an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words

Difference between expressive style and verbosity

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