different between periphrasis vs euphimism

English

From Ancient Greek ?????????? (períphrasis).

periphrasis (countable and uncountable, plural periphrases)

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".
(linguistics) Expressing a grammatical meaning (such as a tense) using a syntactic construction rather than morphological marking.
Language learners sometimes use periphrases like "did go" where a native speaker would use "went".
Native speakers use periphrases like "did not go" where a language learner might use "went not".
(rhetoric) The substitution of a descriptive word or phrase for a proper name (a type of circumlocution).
(rhetoric) The use of a proper name as a shorthand to stand for qualities associated with it.

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