- affectation
- Barnumism
- bedizenment
- big talk
- command of language
- convolution
- exaggeration
- expression of ideas
- fashion
- feeling for words
- flashiness
- flatulence
- flatulency
- floor
- form of speech
- fulsomeness
- garishness
- gaudiness
- grace of expression
- grandiloquence
- grandioseness
- grandiosity
- high-flown diction
- inflatedness
- inflation
- lexiphanicism
- literary style
- loftiness
- luridness
- magniloquence
- maintien
- manner
- mannerism
- manner of speaking
- mere rhetoric
- meretriciousness
- methodology
- mode
- mode of expression
- orotundity
- ostentation
- ostentatious complexity
- overrefinement
- peculiarity
- personal style
- platitudinous ponderosity
- polysyllabic profundity
- pomposity
- pompousness
- pompous prolixity
- pontification
- pretension
- pretentiousness
- prose run mad
- puffery
- rhetoric
- rhetoricalness
- semblance
- sensationalism
- sense of language
- sententiousness
- showiness
- silver tongue
- stiltedness
- strain
- style
- stylistic analysis
- stylistics
- swelling utterance
- swollenness
- swollen phrase
- tall talk
- the grand style
- the plain style
- the sublime
- tortuosity
- tortuousness
- trick
- tumidity
- tumidness
- turgescence
- turgidity
- vein
- way
- windiness