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What is the noun for periphrastic?

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periphrasis
  1. The use of a longer expression instead of a shorter one with a similar meaning, for example "I am going to" instead of "I will".
  2. (linguistics) Expressing a grammatical meaning (such as a tense) using a syntactic construction rather than morphological marking.
  3. (rhetoric) The substitution of a descriptive word or phrase for a proper name (a species of circumlocution)
  4. (rhetoric) The use of a proper name as a shorthand to stand for qualities associated with it.
  5. Synonyms:
      6. verbosity, verbiage, wordiness, prolixity, redundancy, verboseness, diffuseness, circumlocution, garrulity, windiness, verbalism, garrulousness, diffusion, logorrhea, wordage, circuitousness, indirectness, convolutedness, obliqueness, roundaboutness, long-windedness, tautology, pleonasm, loquacity, loquaciousness, discursiveness, repetition, rambling, expansiveness, volubility, logorrhoea, wittering, copiousness, rhetoric, redundance, talkativeness, gassiness, convolution, periphrase, superfluity, lengthiness, perissology, digressiveness, wandering, gift of the gab, gabbiness, babbling, multiloquence, waffle, chattiness … more
  6. Examples:
      7. “By this periphrasis Waverley readily apprehended his portmanteau was intended.”
      “In order to refer to that activity, it is necessary to engage in circumlocution or periphrasis.”
      “In order to refer to the activity denoted by the F-word, it is necessary to engage in circumlocution or periphrasis.”
periphrase
  1. (rhetoric) The use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; a roundabout, or indirect, way of speaking; circumlocution.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. periphrasis, verbosity, wordiness, prolixity, redundancy, verboseness, diffuseness, garrulity, windiness, garrulousness, verbalism, logorrhea, diffusion, wordage, tautology, pleonasm, verbiage, repetition, discursiveness, circumlocution, circuitousness, superfluity, long-windedness, expansiveness, rambling, loquacity, logorrhoea, convolution, lengthiness, wittering, waffle, wandering, digressiveness, protractedness, waffling, prolixness, padding, flannel, meandering, floridity, nonsense, gobbledygook, gassiness, perissology, indirectness, obliqueness, convolutedness, roundaboutness, circumambages, beating about the bush … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The author's excessive periphrase throughout the novel made it difficult to discern the true meaning behind their verbose descriptions.”
periphrases
  1. plural of periphrase circumlocutions.
  2. plural of periphrasis use of syntactic rather than morphological constructions.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. verbosity, verbiage, wordiness, prolixity, redundancy, verboseness, diffuseness, circumlocutions, garrulity, windiness, verbalisms, garrulousness, diffusion, logorrhea, wordage, circuitousness, indirectness, convolutedness, obliqueness, roundaboutness, long-windedness, tautology, pleonasm, loquaciousness, loquacities, repetition, discursiveness, ramblings, copiousness, expansiveness, redundances, logorrhoea, rhetoric, witterings, volubility, perissology, lengthiness, digressiveness, talkativeness, superfluities, gassiness, convolution, wanderings, gift of the gab, waffles, paddings, blatherings, pratings, big mouths, flannel … more
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