magniloquence means the quality of being magniloquent. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 82 out of 100.
Why this word is great
MAGNILOQUENCE — [Noun] The quality or style of speaking or writing in a lofty, grandiose, or pompous manner. From the Latin magniloquentia, from magnus ("great") and loquens, present participle of loqui ("to speak"). Unlike eloquence, which persuades through graceful fluency, or grandiloquence, which veers into bombastic emptiness, magniloquence is the self-conscious architecture of language scaled to monumental proportions. It is the senator's sonorous pronouncement echoing in a marble hall, the thunderous roll of an obsolete honorific, and the gilded frame of a proclamation that has forgotten the modest picture it was meant to hold—a testament to the human belief that the container must be worthy of the thing contained, even if the thing has long since departed.
noun
- The quality of being magniloquent
- Pompous discourse.