periergia

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌpɛ.ɹiˈɜː.d͡ʒi.ə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌpɛ.ɹiˈɝ.d͡ʒi.ə/

Noun

periergia (uncountable)

1. (rhetoric) The use of an excessively elaborate or elevated style to discuss a trivial matter; bombastic or laboured language.
   • 2013, Matthew Leigh, From Polypragmon to Curiosus: Ancient Concepts of Curious and Meddlesome Behaviour:

     The first place in which almost all of us encounter discourses of polypragmosyne, and latterly of periergia, is in the literature of fifth- and fourth-century BC Athens.