ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

568. Solecism -- N. solecism; bad grammar, false grammar, faulty grammar; slip of the
pen, slip of the tongue; lapsus linguae [Lat.]; slipslop † ; bull; barbarism, impropriety.
V. use bad grammar, faulty grammar; solecize † , commit a solecism; murder the King's
English, murder the Queen's English, break Priscian's head.
Adj. ungrammatical; incorrect, inaccurate; faulty; improper, incongruous; solecistic,
solecistical † .
569. Style -- N. style, diction, phraseology, wording; manner, strain; composition; mode
of expression, choice of words; mode of speech, literary power, ready pen, pen of a ready
writer; command of language &c (eloquence) 582; authorship; la morgue litteraire [Fr.].
V. express by words &c 566; write.
Phr. le style c'est de l'homme [Buffon]; style is the dress of thoughts [Chesterfield].
Various Qualities of Style
570. Perspicuity -- N. perspicuity, perspicuousness &c (intelligibility) 518; plain
speaking &c (manifestation) 525; definiteness, definition; exactness &c 494; explicitness,
lucidness.
Adj. lucid &c (intelligible) 518; explicit &c (manifest) 525; exact &c 494.
571. Obscurity -- N. obscurity &c (unintelligibility) 519; involution; hard words;
ambiguity &c 520; unintelligibleness; vagueness &c 475, inexactness &c 495; what d'ye
call 'em &c (neologism) 563 [Obs.]; darkness of meaning.
Adj. obscure &c n.; crabbed, involved, confused.
572. Conciseness -- N. conciseness &c adj.; brevity, the soul of wit, laconism † ; Tacitus;
ellipsis; syncope; abridgment &c (shortening) 201; compression &c 195; epitome &c
596; monostich † ; brunch word, portmanteau word.
V. be concise &c adj.; condense &c 195; abridge &c 201; abstract &c 596; come to the
point.
Adj. concise, brief, short, terse, close; to the point, exact; neat, compact; compressed,
condensed, pointed; laconic, curt, pithy, trenchant, summary; pregnant; compendious &c
(compendium) 596; succinct; elliptical, epigrammatic, quaint, crisp; sententious.
Adv. concisely &c adj.; briefly, summarily; in brief, in short, in a word, in a few words;
for shortness sake; to come to the point, to make a long story short, to cut the matter
short, to be brief; it comes to this, the long and the short of it is.
Phr. brevis esse laboro obscurus fio [Lat.] [Horace].
573. Diffuseness -- N. diffuseness &c adj.; amplification &c v.; dilating &c v.; verbosity,
verbiage, cloud of words, copia verborum [Lat.]; flow of words &c (loquacity) 584;
looseness.
Polylogy † , tautology, battology † , perissology † ; pleonasm, exuberance, redundancy;
thrice-told tale; prolixity; circumlocution, ambages † ; periphrase † , periphrasis; roundabout
phrases; episode; expletive; pennya-lining; richness &c 577.
V. be diffuse &c adj.; run out on, descant, expatiate, enlarge, dilate, amplify, expand,
inflate; launch out, branch out; rant.
maunder, prose; harp upon &c (repeat) 104; dwell on, insist upon.