periphrasis

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periphrasis (countable and uncountable, plural periphrases)

The use of a longer expression instead of a shorter one with a similar meaning, for example "I am going to" instead of "I will".
(linguistics) Expressing a grammatical meaning (such as a tense) using a syntactic construction rather than morphological marking.
Language learners sometimes use periphrases like "did go" where a native speaker would use "went".

Native speakers use periphrases like "did not go" where a language learner might use "went not".
(rhetoric) The substitution of a descriptive word or phrase for a proper name (a type of circumlocution).
- [1835, L[arret] Langley, A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster: Printed by C. White, Baxter-Gate, →OCLC, page 37:
  Periphrasis a single thought expands,
  And uses many words for what but few demands.]
- 1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 4, page 63:
  The "glen," or the "brake of the lion," is Pindar's favourite periphrasis for Nemea.
(rhetoric) The use of a proper name as a shorthand to stand for qualities associated with it.

use of a longer expression instead of a shorter one