periergia
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌpɛ.ɹiˈɜː.dʒi.ə/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌpɛ.ɹiˈɝ.dʒi.ə/
Noun
periergia (uncountable)
- (rhetoric) The use of an excessively elaborate or elevated style to discuss a trivial matter; bombastic or laboured language.
- 2013, Matthew Leigh, From Polypragmon to Curiosus: Ancient Concepts of Curious and Meddlesome Behaviour:
- The first place in which almost all of us encounter discourses of polypragmosyne, and latterly of periergia, is in the literature of fifth- and fourth-century BC Athens.
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