rhetoric(noun)

using language effectively to please or persuade

grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, grandiloquence, rhetoric(noun)

high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation

"the grandiosity of his prose"; "an excessive ornateness of language"

palaver, hot air, empty words, empty talk, rhetoric(noun)

loud and confused and empty talk

"mere rhetoric"

rhetoric(noun)

study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking)

rhetoric(Noun)

The art of using language, especially public speaking, as a means to persuade.

rhetoric(Noun)

Meaningless language with an exaggerated style intended to impress.

Itu2019s only so much rhetoric.

Rhetoric(noun)

the art of composition; especially, elegant composition in prose

Rhetoric(noun)

oratory; the art of speaking with propriety, elegance, and force

Rhetoric(noun)

hence, artificial eloquence; fine language or declamation without conviction or earnest feeling

Rhetoric(noun)

fig. : The power of persuasion or attraction; that which allures or charms

Rhetoric

the science or art of persuasive or effective speech, written as well as spoken, and that both in theory and practice was cultivated to great perfection among the ancient Greeks and Romans, and to some extent in the Middle Ages and later, but is much less cultivated either as a science or an art to-day.

RHETORIC

Language in a dress suit.