Circumlocution vs Evasion - What's the difference?
circumlocution | evasion |
A roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea.
A roundabout expression. See also euphemism
The act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding.
* 2011 , Christine Chism, Alliterative Revivals (page 99)
As nouns the difference between circumlocution and evasion
is that circumlocution is a roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea while evasion is the act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding.circumlocution
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(en noun)Synonyms
* beat around the bush * periphrasis * ambagesDerived terms
* circumlocutionary * circumlocutionalevasion
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- In these hunting scenes, as many critics have noted, the reversals, negotiations, lurkings, and evasions between hunter and prey mirror and frame the bedroom strategies of the Lady and Gawain.
