periphrasis Synonyms

circumlocution ambage logorrhea garrulousness circumlocutious verboseness verbal evasion redundancy wordiness windiness verbosity long-windedness officialese catalogic wordage beating around the bush paraphrasis gassiness discursiveness indirect speech convolutedness circumambages circuitousness verbiage verbality indirectness garrulity fecundity euphemism diffusion diffuseness circumlocutional circumbendibus battology loquaciousness loquacity verbalism tautology roundaboutness roundabout prolixity pleonasm periphrase obliqueness macrology ambages