perissological

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perissological

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From perissology + -ical. Compare French périssologique.

adjective more perissological · most perissological

  1. rare Redundant or excessive in words. We skated out tangents and cotangents of majestic circles, together with signs and wonders, versed, inversed, and reversed, which it would be perissological to enumerate.
  2. Serving to reinforce a message; having strong associations. But these are changes that would modify neither the sets of values expressed in a perissological way nor the non-verbal communication that takes place around the artefact in question.

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@misc{perissological_2026,
  title = {perissological},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/perissological},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}