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See definition of purism on Dictionary.com
  • as ineuphemism
  • as ineuphuism

synonyms for purism

  • circumlocution
  • delicacy
  • floridness
  • grandiloquence
  • inflation
  • pomposity
  • pretense
See also synonyms for: purist
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
On this page you'll find 20 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to purism, such as: circumlocution, delicacy, floridness, grandiloquence, inflation, and pomposity.
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How to use purism in a sentence

The Librem 5, for example, is built by Purism, an American “social purpose corporation” specializing in privacy-oriented products.
ERIK PRINCE WANTS TO SELL YOU A “SECURE” SMARTPHONE THAT’S TOO GOOD TO BE TRUEPATRICK HOWELL O'NEILLAUGUST 19, 2022MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
As a general rule, I think, educated Americans are more apt to err on the side of purism than of laxity.
AMERICA TO-DAY, OBSERVATIONS AND REFLECTIONSWILLIAM ARCHER
No writer of the period has such a command of pure English, unadulterated by xenomania and unweakened by purism, as Daniel.
A HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATUREGEORGE SAINTSBURY
Purism, whether in grammar or vocabulary, almost always means ignorance.
THOMAS HARDY'S DORSETROBERT THURSTON HOPKINS
His fate was perhaps as sad as well might be, and as foul a blot to the purism of these very pure times in which we live.
DOCTOR THORNEANTHONY TROLLOPE
If we attempt such purism we must fail signally as constructors and as artists.
LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE, NOVEMBER 1885VARIOUS
The rhetoric of the seventeenth century was a necessary outgrowth of pedantic purism.
RENAISSANCE IN ITALY: ITALIAN LITERATUREJOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS
The origin of this terminology seems to me to lie in a bit of purism.
THE GUNPOWDER PLOT AND LORD MOUNTEAGLE'S LETTERHENRY HAWKES SPINK JR.
The simplicity and purism of the tea-room resulted from emulation of the Zen monastery.
THE BOOK OF TEAKAKUZO OKAKURA
Even the devout played into the hands of the worldly by their very purism.
THE WILL TO DOUBTALFRED H. LLOYD
SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
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WORDS RELATED TO PURISM

  • circumlocution
  • delicacy
  • floridness
  • grandiloquence
  • inflation
  • pomposity
  • pretense
  • purism
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.