Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. That which serves only to fill up space; filling; padding: used specifically in literary and musical criticism.
Examples
“Pour ceux que ça intéresse, je suis également en train de mettre sur pied le World Wide Paperwork and Administrivia Day, qui sera consacré chacun de son côté, là à avancer dans le triage de paperasse, le remplissage de formulaires administratifs, les coups de fils qui attendent depuis des plombes, le triage des quittances à envoyer au comptable… bref, vous voyez l’idée.”
“Every one,' my dear fellow, is too much to say, for the world's full of the crudest _remplissage_.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘remplissage’.
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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liners
a luxury of liners
liner, aliner, blueliner, redliner, one-liner, nine-liner, streamliner, ocean liner, jetliner, airliner, peanoliner, baseliner and 34 more...
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Sage advice
sage, sage advice, usage, sagebrush, passage, embassage, message, presage, Seven Sages of Rome, runer, massage, corsage and 48 more...
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The relative complement of seven othe...
I’ve changed the title of this list in order to avoid it sounding as if this were a list of errors.
It’s just a list of all words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary, which can’t be foun...abcedarian, acathasia, acerbophobia, acoucheuse, acronyx, adelphepothia, adelphirexia, adelphithymia, aflunters, agathocacological, agenhina, aichmorhabdophobia and 595 more...
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The Collection
A somewhat discriminatory list of words and phrases collected for their euphonic or arcane appeal, interesting etymology, or concise definition of an otherwise unnamed phenomenon or concept.
ziggurat, neophilia, sucker punch, soporific, epoch, tundra, fiat, idiotproof, miscellany, metaphysics, cryptozoology, dysphoria and 850 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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...:::bella:::...
originally started as an attempt to collect words I found visually and auditorially beautiful, as well as psychically evocative, this has become nothing more than a grab bag of word curiosities, a ...
bergamot, jambalaya, bee's knees, heliotrope, hosanna, gamboge, aureole, filial, madrigal, multilingual, sacrosanct, sojourn and 1072 more...
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Words of the Day
glabella, chirotony, nook-shotten, crapehanger, filemot, swirlie, egosurf, lexiphanicism, Ruritanian, stichometry, chrononaut, faldstool and 2014 more...
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froseph's list
saritorial, pogrom, synecdoche, metonymy, tonsorial, prophylactic, ozymandias, nepenthe, tonsorial, tranche, allodium, allodial and 156 more...
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Construction
Words around the construction of words
morpheme, riming, phoneme, assonance, euphony, alliteration, rhyme, logos, etymology, similitude, language, syntactic and 87 more...
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foreign
foreign words used in English
a priori, a certiori, prima facie, hardener, sitzfleisch, weltanschauung, gotterdammerung., schadenfreude, ersatz, lebensraum, a fortiori, nihil obstat and 50 more...
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Good to know
when I can't find just the right word for it...
remplissage, rabblement, lucifugous, remolino, grammaticaster, lucubratory, homonym, alluvial, macula, vitiate, convalescent, wamble and 13 more...
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GOOD ONES
Tweets
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mtc Leave it to the French! An elegant word for stuffing or padding especially appropriate as we approach one of our national days of gastronomic excess here in the U.S., namely Thanksgiving. Nov 20, 2012
avivamagnolia
~ filling or padding used in music and literature Jan 18, 2009