phraseology

phraseology

noun

Definition of PHRASEOLOGY

1

a distinctive way of putting ideas into words <I recognized the writer's distinctive phraseology even before I saw the name>

Synonyms fashion, locution, manner, mode, phraseology, tone, vein

Related Words address, delivery, elocution; archaism, colloquialism, regionalism; acceptation, connotation, denotation, expression, idiom

2

the way in which something is put into words <the unique phraseology of the suspect's answer stuck in my mind>

Synonyms diction, language, phraseology, phrasing, verbiage

Related Words expression, formulation, locution; enunciation, phrase, speech, style, utterance, voice