1.
[syn: grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, grandiloquence, rhetoric]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Magniloquence \Mag*nil"o*quence\, n. [L. magniloquentia.]
The quality of being magniloquent; pompous discourse;
grandiloquence.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
magniloquence
n 1: high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation;
"the grandiosity of his prose"; "an excessive ornateness of
language" [syn: grandiosity, magniloquence,
ornateness, grandiloquence, rhetoric]