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style vs expression

expression vs style

style and expression both are nouns.

style is a verb but expression is not a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
style Yes No Yes No
expression Yes No No No
As nouns, expression is a hyponym of style; that is, expression is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than style:
  • 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
  • expression: the style of expressing yourself
Other hyponyms of style include allegory, analysis, bathos, black humor, black humour, device, eloquence, fluency, smoothness, euphuism, flatness, 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.
style (noun) expression (noun)
a slender bristlelike or tubular process the act of forcing something out by squeezing or pressing
a pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving the feelings expressed on a person's face
how something is done or how it happens a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations
distinctive and stylish elegance the style of expressing yourself
the popular taste at a given time expression without words
a particular kind (as to appearance) a group of symbols that make a mathematical statement
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 communication (in speech or writing) of your beliefs or opinions
editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit
(botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma (genetics) the process of expressing a gene
style (verb) expression (verb)
designate by an identifying term
make consistent with certain rules of style
make consistent with a certain fashion or style
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