Usually means: Use of pretentiously obscure vocabulary.
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  1. lexiphanicism: Merriam-Webster
  2. lexiphanicism: Wordnik
  3. lexiphanicism: Wiktionary
  4. Lexiphanicism: Dictionary.com
  5. Lexiphanicism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. Lexiphanicism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. lexiphanicism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. lexiphanicism: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  9. Lexiphanicism: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. lexiphanicism: FreeDictionary.org
  11. lexiphanicism: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  The use of pretentious words or language.

Similar:
lexiphane, rhetoric, perissology, declamation, ampliatio, synathroesmus, proslepsis, antiphrasis, sesquipedalianism, periergia, more...

Opposite:
simplification, plain language, clarity

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Similar:
lexiphane, rhetoric, perissology, declamation, ampliatio, synathroesmus, proslepsis, antiphrasis, sesquipedalianism, periergia, more...

Opposite:
simplification, plain language, clarity



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