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- SENTENTIOUS Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
2 : terse, aphoristic, or moralistic in expression : pithy, epigrammatic sententiously adverb sententiousness noun
- SENTENTIOUS Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
Other Word Forms sententiously adverb sententiousness noun sententiosity noun nonsententious adjective nonsententiousness noun unsententious adjective unsententiousness noun
- SENTENTIOUS | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
SENTENTIOUS definition: 1 trying to appear wise, intelligent, and important, in a way that is annoying: 2 trying to… Learn more
- SENTENTIOUS definition in American English | Collins English Dictionary
Derived forms sententiously (senˈtentiously) adverb sententiousness (senˈtentiousness) noun Word origin C15: from Latin sententiōsus full of meaning, from sententia; see sentence
- Sententiousness - The Free Dictionary
Define sententiousness sententiousness synonyms, sententiousness pronunciation, sententiousness translation, English dictionary definition of sententiousness adj 1 Terse and energetic in expression; pithy 2 Full of or given to using aphorisms, especially in a pompously moralizing manner sen·ten′tious·ly adv
- sententious, adj. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary
sententioner, n ?1548–81 sententiosity, n 1646– sententious, adj c1440– sententiously, adv c1450– sententiousness, n 1530– senteur, n 1601 senthis, adv ?1553 senticous, adj 1657 sentience, n 1839– sentiency, n a1850– sentient, adj n 1603– sentiment, n c1374– sentimental, adj 1749– Browse more nearby entries
- sententiousness: meaning, definition - WordSense
Sententiousness is a particular ideology of rhetoric, and it has a particular history Eighteenth-century sententiousness, for instance, was a very dominant form
- Sententious - Definition, Meaning Synonyms | Vocabulary. com
If you speak in sententious phrases, your listeners are probably falling asleep, as your speech is pompous and pretentious, and full of moralistic babble
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