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perissologic

perissologic is the alternative form of perissological.

Meaning of perissological

Adjective

perissological (comparative more perissological, superlative most perissological)

  1. (rare) Redundant or excessive in words.
    • We skated out tangents and cotangents of majestic circles, together with signs and wonders, versed, inversed, and reversed, which it would be perissological to enumerate.1855 March, “A Trip to Lake Saltonstall”, in The Yale Literary Magazine, volume 20, page 180
  2. Serving to reinforce a message; having strong associations.
    • But these are changes that would modify neither the sets of values expressed in a perissological way nor the non-verbal communication that takes place around the artefact in question.2016, Pierre Lemonnier, Mundane Objects: Materiality and Non-verbal Communication, page 158

Forms of perissologic

comparativemore perissologic
superlativemost perissologic

Questions about perissologic

What is perissologic the alternative form of?
Perissologic is the alternative form of perissological.

Words near perissologic in the dictionary

  1. perissodactylate
  2. perissodactylic
  3. perissodactylism
  4. perissodactylous
  5. perissodactyls
  6. perissologic
  7. perissological
  8. perissologies
  9. perissology
  10. peristalith
  11. peristaliths

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