magniloquence
71inflation — n 1. false prosperity, overenlarged currency; runaway prices, high prices, stiff prices, steep prices; stagflation. 2. conceit, conceitedness, egotism, pride, vainglory, vaingloriousness; narcissism, self love, self admiration, self esteem,… …
72pomposity — n 1. pompousness, haughtiness, hauteur, arrogance, self importance, pontification, Inf. stuffiness; pretension, pretentiousness, affectation, airs, attitudinizing, posing, Inf. highfalutin ways; vainglory, vanity, pride, foppery, dandyism,… …
73pose — I v 1. affect, attitudinize, act, play to, make a show of; assume, put on airs, Sl. put on the dog, profess; feign, pretend, fake, sham, go through the motions; bluff, deceive, dissemble, posture; show off, swank, be vain, talk big, boast. 2.… …
74rant — v 1. orate, speechify, declaim, discourse, expound, expatiate, hold forth, perorate, go on, go on and on; speak, make an address, talk, take to the hustings, soapbox, Inf. stump; boast, brag, crow, trumpet, talk big, exaggerate, hyperbolize, tell …
75raving — adj 1. delirious, out of one s mind or head, incoherent, not oneself, irrational, crazy, Sl. cuckoo, Sl. off one s rocker; deranged, Sl. unglued, unhinged, unstuck, unstrung, Sl. haywire, Sl. batty, Sl. nuts, Sl. nutty; raging, frenzied, frantic …
76rhetoric — n 1. eloquence, power of speech, appeal, forcefulness, expressiveness, cogency; elocution, diction, articulation, enunciation, intonation, vocalization, address, delivery; command of words, way with words, Inf. gift of gab, Archaic. facundity;… …
77rodomontade — n 1. boasting, bluster, bragging, fanfaronade, gasconade, Sl. hot air, Sl. bunk; self approbation, self praise, vainglory, vainglorious boasting; bravado, braggadocio, bombast, grandiosity, magniloquence, grandiloquence; extravagance,… …
78turgidity — n 1. swelling, bloatedness, puffiness, turgescence, tumidity, intumescence, tumefaction, ballooning; distention, expansion, extension, enlargement; dilation, dilatation, inflation, Pathol. aneurysm, Pathol. varix. 2. bombast, grandiosity,… …
79verbosity — n 1. wordiness, verbality, verbalism, verbiage, prolixity, prolixness, loquacity, loquaciousness, long windedness, longiloquence, multiloquence; overtalkativeness, talkativeness, glibness, loose tongue, Inf. gabbiness, Inf. gift of gab, Inf.… …
80volubility — n talkativeness, overtalkativeness, garrulity, garrulousness, glibness, Inf. gabbiness, loose tongue, Inf. gift of gab, Inf. windiness, Inf. gassiness, Inf. big mouth; verbosity, wordiness, verbality, verbalism, verbiage, prolixity, prolixness,… …
