Synonyms for mellifluousness
- expressiveness
- fervor
- fluency
- passion
- poise
- vigor
- wit
- ability
- appeal
- articulation
- delivery
- diction
- expression
- facility
- flow
- force
- forcefulness
- grandiloquence
- loquacity
- meaningfulness
- oration
- oratory
- persuasiveness
- power
- rhetoric
- spirit
- style
- vivacity
- volubility
- wittiness
- command of language
- dramatic
- expressivity
- gift of gab
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Antonyms for mellifluousness
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WORD ORIGIN
early 15c., "sweet, pleasing" (of an odor, a style of speaking or writing, etc.), from Late Latin mellifluus "flowing with (or as if with) honey," from Latin mel (genitive mellis) "honey" (related to Greek meli "honey;" see Melissa) + -fluus "flowing," from fluere "to flow" (see fluent). Related: Melifluously; melifluousness.
MORE RELATED WORDS FOR MELLIFLUOUSNESS
eloquence
nounskillful way with words- ability
- appeal
- articulation
- command of language
- delivery
- diction
- dramatic
- expression
- expressiveness
- expressivity
- facility
- fervor
- flow
- fluency
- force
- forcefulness
- gift of gab
- grandiloquence
- loquacity
- meaningfulness
- mellifluousness
- oration
- oratory
- passion
- persuasiveness
- poise
- power
- rhetoric
- spirit
- style
- vigor
- vivacity
- volubility
- wit
- wittiness
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.