SENTENTIOUS Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com Other Word Forms sententiously adverb sententiousness noun sententiosity noun nonsententious adjective nonsententiousness noun unsententious adjective unsententiousness noun
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