different between euphemism vs euphuism

English

Etymology

Recorded since 1656; from Ancient Greek ?????????? (euph?mismós), from ???????? (euph?míz?), from ??????? (eúph?mos, “uttering sound of good omen, abstaining from inauspicious words”), from ?? (eû, “well”) + ???? (ph?m?, “a voice, a prophetic voice, rumor, talk”), from ????? (phánai, “to speak, say”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: yoo?'f?-m?z"(?)m, IPA^(key): /?ju?.f??m?.z(?)m/

Noun

euphemism (countable and uncountable, plural euphemisms)

1. (uncountable) The use of a word or phrase to replace another with one that is considered less offensive, blunt or vulgar than the word or phrase which it replaces.
2. (countable) A word or phrase that is used to replace another in this way.

Antonyms

• dysphemism
• expletive

Related terms

• euphemistic
• pseudonym

Derived terms

• youthemism

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Further reading

• euphemism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Euphemism in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• euphemism in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• euphemism in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• euphemism at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Etymology

From John Lyly's didactic romance Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578), +? -ism.

Noun

euphuism (countable and uncountable, plural euphuisms)

1. (uncountable) An ornate style of writing (in Elizabethan England) marked by the excessive use of alliteration, antithesis and mythological similes.
2. An instance of euphuism.
   • 1844, Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia

     I have not the slightest faith in Carlyle. In ten years–possibly in five–he will be remembered only as a butt for sarcasm. His linguistic Euphuisms might very well have been taken as prima facie evidence of his philosophic ones; they were the froth which indicated, first, the shallowness, and secondly, the confusion of the waters.

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