What's the difference between circumlocutory and periphrastic?
Circumlocutory
Definition:
(a.) Characterised by circumlocution; periphrastic.
Example Sentences:
(1) His speech was fluent and daily communication was possible in spite of circumlocutory paraphasic output.
(2) If Keaton is good at anything, it's this kind of circumlocutory verbiage.
(3) Normal controls made predominantly semantic-category and circumlocutory errors.
(4) This study reports the improvement of verbal interaction skills in a 27-year-old severely head-injured male who presented with an inappropriate attention-seeking circumlocutory conversational style.
(5) Look, we could begin this, our daily Mill, with a circumlocutory introduction that would segue conveniently to the first significant rumour.