Synonymous specification
— accumulation of words related
to one and the same referent (i. e. object, person, phenomenon,
etc.) and used to characterize it as precisely as possible. These
words are not necessarily similar in meaning.
e.g. Joe was a mild, good-natured, sweet-tempered, easy-
going, foolish dear fellow [
Dickens
]
e.g. Consider these, for we have condemned them…, / Born
barren, a freak growth, root in rubble, / Fruitlessly blossoming,
whose foliage suffocates, / Their sap is sluggish, they reject the
sun [
Roberts
].
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