Circumlocution vs Circumscribe - What's the difference?
circumlocution | circumscribe |
A roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea.
A roundabout expression. See also euphemism
To draw a line around; to encircle.
To limit narrowly; to restrict.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
, volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (geometry) To draw the smallest circle or higher-dimensional sphere that has (a polyhedron, polygon, etc.) in its interior.
As a noun circumlocution
is a roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea.As a verb circumscribe is
to draw a line around; to encircle.circumlocution
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(en noun)Synonyms
* beat around the bush * periphrasis * ambagesDerived terms
* circumlocutionary * circumlocutionalcircumscribe
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Verb
(circumscrib)Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; perhaps to moralise on the oneness or fragility of the planet, or to see humanity for the small and circumscribed thing that it is; […].}}