Word Meanings - COLLOQUIALISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A colloquial expression, not employed in formal discourse or writing.

• Expression
  The act of expressing; the act of forcing out by pressure; as, the expression of juices or oils; also, of extorting or eliciting; as, a forcible expression of truth.
• Writative
  Inclined to much writing; -- correlative to talkative.
• Expressional
  Of, or relating to, expression; phraseological; also, vividly representing or suggesting an idea or sentiment.
• Colloquial
  Pertaining to, or used in, conversation, esp. common and familiar conversation; conversational; hence, unstudied; informal; as, colloquial intercourse; colloquial phrases; a colloquial style.
• Expressionless
  Destitute of expression.
• Colloquialism
  A colloquial expression, not employed in formal discourse or writing.
• Colloquialize
  To make colloquial and familiar; as, to colloquialize one's style of writing.
• Formaldehyde
  A colorless, volatile liquid, H2CO, resembling acetic or ethyl aldehyde, and chemically intermediate between methyl alcohol and formic acid.
• Writership
  The office of a writer.
• Discourse
  The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range of reasoning faculty.
• Formalism
  The practice or the doctrine of strict adherence to, or dependence on, external forms, esp. in matters of religion.
• Discoursed
  of Discourse
• Formalist
  One overattentive to forms, or too much confined to them; esp., one who rests in external religious forms, or observes strictly the outward forms of worship, without possessing the life and spirit of religion.

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