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Rhetoric vs Phrasemaker - What's the difference?

rhetoric | phrasemaker |

As nouns the difference between rhetoric and phrasemaker

is that rhetoric is the art of using language, especially public speaking, as a means to persuade while phrasemaker is a crafter of phrases; one who pens bombast or rhetoric.

As an adjective rhetoric

is .

rhetoric

Alternative forms

* rhetorick (obsolete)

Adjective

  • Noun

  • The art of using language, especially public speaking, as a means to persuade.
  • Meaningless language with an exaggerated style intended to impress.
  • It’s only so much rhetoric .

    Usage notes

    * Adjectives often applied to "rhetoric": political, legal, visual, classical, ancient, violent, empty, inflammatory, hateful, heated, fiery, vitriolic, angry, overheated, extreme.

    Synonyms

    * (l)

    Derived terms

    * rhetorical * rhetorician

    See also

    * preterition *

    Anagrams

    *

    phrasemaker

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A crafter of phrases; one who pens bombast or rhetoric.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 28, author=William Safire, title=100 Hours, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=But even as you read this, some sharp political phrasemaker is working on a paragraph that begins “Not in a hundred days, not in a hundred hours, but in a hundred New York minutes . }}