battology

[ buh-tol-uh-jee ]

noun

1. wearisome repetition of words in speaking or writing.

Other Words From

• bat·tolo·gist noun
• bat·to·log·i·cal [bat-l-, oj, -i-k, uh, l], adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of battology¹

1595–1605; < Greek battología ( bátt ( os ) stammerer + -o- -o- + -logia -logy )

Example Sentences

Battology, bat-ol′o-ji, n. repetition in speech or writing.—adj.

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This sonorous balance of phrase and epithet cannot always escape what Milton himself calls "the heathenish battology of multiplying words."

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Associated words: glossary, glossarist, glossography, glossology, glossologist, lexicology, lexicologist, etymology, etymologist, etymologize, neology, lexicography, terminology, paronomasia, pun, punning, onomatopœoea, syncope, syncopation, literal, literally, literalism, transliteration, verbal, verbalist, verbalism, battology, logomachy, logomachist, verbarium, apocope, kyriology, metonomy, autonomasia, multiloquence, perissology, purism, purist, elision, polysynthesis, coin, coinage, apheresis, aphetic, aphetism, aphesis, onomatopoiesis, metaphrase, acrostic, rebus, synecdoche, verbicide, verbomaniac, locution. words of an opera. libretto.

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Polylogy†, tautology, battology†, perissology†; pleonasm, exuberance, redundancy; thrice-told tale; prolixity; circumlocution, ambages†; periphrase†, periphrasis; roundabout phrases; episode; expletive; pennya-lining; richness &c.

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Repetition -- N. repetition, iteration, reiteration, harping, recurrence, succession, run; battology, tautology; monotony, tautophony; rhythm &c.

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