fulsomeness

  • 11smarminess — noun smug self serving earnestness • Syn: ↑fulsomeness, ↑oiliness, ↑oleaginousness, ↑unctuousness, ↑unction • Derivationally related forms: ↑unctuous (for: ↑ …

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  • 12unctuousness — noun smug self serving earnestness • Syn: ↑fulsomeness, ↑oiliness, ↑oleaginousness, ↑smarminess, ↑unction • Derivationally related forms: ↑unctuous, ↑smarmy ( …

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  • 13Prolixity — Pro*lix i*ty, n. [L. prolixitas: cf. F. prolixit[ e].] The quality or state of being prolix; great length; minute detail; as, prolixity in discourses and writings. For fulsomeness of his prolixitee. Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Idly running on with… …

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  • 14fulsome — adjective Etymology: Middle English fulsom copious, cloying, from full + som some Date: 13th century 1. a. characterized by abundance ; copious < describes in fulsome detail G. N. Shuster > < fulsome bird life. The feeder overcrowded Maxine Kumin …

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  • 15Orality — An oral community in Takéo, Cambodia confronts writing. Modern scholarship has shown that orality is a complex and tenacious social phenomenon. Photo: Brett Matthews, 2006 …

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  • 16fulsome — fulsomely, adv. fulsomeness, n. /fool seuhm, ful /, adj. 1. offensive to good taste, esp. as being excessive; overdone or gross: fulsome praise that embarrassed her deeply; fulsome décor. 2. disgusting; sickening; repulsive: a table heaped with&#8230; …

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  • 17affectation — Synonyms and related words: Barnumism, Gongorism, act, acting, action, actions, activity, acts, address, affectedness, air, airs, appearance, artfulness, artifice, artificiality, attitudinizing, bearing, bedizenment, behavior, behavior pattern,&#8230; …

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  • 18baseness — Synonyms and related words: abjectness, abominability, abominableness, arrantness, atrociousness, awfulness, badness, beastliness, beggarliness, bestiality, brutality, chicanery, coarseness, commonness, commonplaceness, contemptibility,&#8230; …

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  • 19bestiality — Synonyms and related words: Adam, Gothicism, Neanderthalism, abominableness, anal intercourse, animalism, animality, atrociousness, autoeroticism, awfulness, barbarism, barbarity, barbarousness, baseness, beastliness, bloodiness, bloodlust,&#8230; …

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  • 20big talk — Synonyms and related words: Barnumism, affectation, aggrandizement, amplification, ballyhoo, bedizenment, blowing up, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, burlesque, caricature, convolution, dilatation, dilation, enhancement, enlargement, exaggerating,&#8230; …

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