Practice FrenchC1noun
l’emphase
grandiloquence, bombast
« Il parle avec une emphase qui finit par lasser son auditoire. »
“He speaks with a grandiloquence that eventually tires his audience.”
In other languages
- Spanish grandilocuencia
- Portuguese grandiloquência
- German Pathos, Schwulst
- Italian ampollosità, enfasi retorica
- Arabic التفخيم اللفظي
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