Perissological
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Perissological is an adjective meaning Serving to reinforce a message; having strong associations.
Meaning
Serving to reinforce a message; having strong associations.
More Meanings
- (rare) Redundant or excessive in words.
Example Sentences
Perissological resonators can reveal relationships extant in various domains like kinship, exchange, death, marriage etc.
We skated out tangents and cotangents of majestic circles, together with signs and wonders, versed, inversed, and reversed, which it would be perissological to enumerate.
But these are changes that would modify neither the sets of values expressed in a perissological way nor the non-verbal communication that takes place around the artefact in question.
There was the links of those things, their perissological qualities (Lemonnier 2012), the world of artefacts, knowledge, symbols, rules, stories and emotions in which they were immersed.
Synonyms for perissological
Depending on context, synonyms include verbose, wordy.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include perissologic, pleonastic, pleonasmic, periphrastical, phraseological, periphrastic.
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