rhetoric

Etymology 1
From, from , , from.

Etymology 2
From, , from , from , from , ellipsis of , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) The art of using language, especially public speaking, as a means to persuade.
 * 2) Meaningless language with an exaggerated style intended to impress.
 * 1) Meaningless language with an exaggerated style intended to impress.

Collocations

 * Adjectives often applied to "rhetoric":
 * political, legal, visual, classical, ancient
 * violent, empty, inflammatory, hateful, heated, fiery, vitriolic, angry, overheated, extreme

Translations

 * Afrikaans: retoriek, redekuns
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: بَلَاغَة, فَصَاحَة
 * Armenian: հռետորաբանություն
 * Belarusian: красамо́ўства, рыто́рыка
 * Bulgarian:, красноречи́вост,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: řečnictví, ,
 * Danish: retorik
 * Dutch: redekunde, ,
 * Esperanto: retoriko
 * Estonian: retoorika
 * Faroese: tungusnild, retorikkur
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: რიტორიკა
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ῥητορική
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: वाक्पटुता,, वक्रपटुता
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: reitric, roscaireacht
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 修辞学
 * Kazakh: шешендік, риторика
 * Korean: ,
 * Lao: ວາທະສາດ
 * Latvian: retorika
 * Lithuanian: retorika
 * Macedonian: реторика, речитост, красноречивост
 * Malay: ريتوريک,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Old Norse: málsnildarlist
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: рето̀рика, го̀во̄рнӣштво, рѐчито̄ст, рјѐчито̄ст, краснорѐчиво̄ст, краснорјѐчиво̄ст
 * Roman:, , rèčitōst, , krasnorèčivōst,
 * Slovak: rečníctvo, rétorika, výrečnosť
 * Slovene: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: sayusay
 * Tajik: балоғат, фасоҳат
 * Thai: ,
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: красномо́вство, красномо́вність, рито́рика
 * Urdu: بَلاغَت
 * Vietnamese:


 * Belarusian: шматсло́ўнасць, шматсло́ўе, пустасло́ўе, словаблу́дства
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: retorik, kancellistil
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Irish: reitric, roscaireacht
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, фразёрство, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: рето̀рика
 * Roman:
 * Ukrainian:, марнослі́в'я, марносло́вство, пустослі́в'я, словоблу́дство, словоблу́ддя