different between rhetoric vs wordcraft

English

Alternative forms

• rhetorick (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French rhetorique, from Latin rh?torica, from Ancient Greek ???????? (rh?torik?), ellipsis of ???????? ????? (rh?torik? tékhn?), from ????????? (rh?torikós, “concerning public speech”), from ????? (rh?t?r, “public speaker”).

Pronunciation

• (adjective): IPA^(key): /???t???k/
• (noun): IPA^(key): /???t???k/

Adjective

rhetoric

1. Synonym of rhetorical.

Noun

rhetoric (countable and uncountable, plural rhetorics)

1. The art of using language, especially public speaking, as a means to persuade.
2. Meaningless language with an exaggerated style intended to impress.

   It’s only so much rhetoric.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often applied to "rhetoric":
  • (by kind or area of application) political, legal, visual, classical, ancient
  • (by quality) violent, empty, inflammatory, hateful, heated, fiery, vitriolic, angry, overheated, extreme

Synonyms

• wordcraft

Derived terms

• rhetorical
• rhetorician

Related terms

Translations

See also

• preterition
• Appendix:Glossary of rhetoric

Anagrams

• torchier

English

Etymology

word +? -craft

Noun

wordcraft (uncountable)

1. Skill with words; crafty or clever use of words or speech, rhetoric.
   • 2000, Deirdre N. McCloskey, How to be human: though an economist:

     To identify a piece of speech in finance as rhetoric is not to damn it but to identify it as part of wordcraft.

   • 1990, J. P. Fokkelman, Narrative art and poetry in the books of Samuel:

     It is the key concept in Jakobson's fundamental recognition of the importance of repetition in wordcraft […]