epideictical
Definition
- Adjective:
- Designed primarily for rhetorical display: Used to describe speech, writing, or oratory that is intended chiefly to display the speaker's skill, to impress an audience, or to praise/blame a subject, rather than to argue a practical point or persuade to a specific action.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- The speaker delivered an epideictical address at the ceremony, full of eloquent praise but lacking in substantive policy.
- Much of the poetry from that era is epideictical, crafted more to demonstrate the poet's virtuosity than to convey deep emotion.
Advanced Usage
- Epideictic rhetoric: A branch of oratory (alongside deliberative and forensic) concerned with ceremonial speeches for praise or blame, such as eulogies, graduation addresses, or patriotic speeches.
- Aristotle categorized public speaking into three types: deliberative, forensic, and epideictic.
Variants and Related Words
- Epideictic (adj): The more common variant form, identical in meaning to "epideictical."
- The epideictic genre focuses on the present and uses amplification to honor or dishonor someone.
Synonyms
- Demonstrative: Serving to demonstrate or show, especially skill.
- Oratorical: Relating to the art of public speaking.
- Panegyrical: Formally expressing praise.
- Display (as an adjective in specific contexts, e.g., "display oratory").
Antonyms
- Deliberative: Rhetoric aimed at debating future action and policy.
- Forensic: Rhetoric concerned with legal argument and establishing facts about the past.
- Persuasive: Aimed at convincing someone to believe or do something practical.
- Unadorned: Plain, not showy.
Related Phrases and Concepts
- Epideictic oratory: The formal term for ceremonial speaking.
- The president's speech was a classic example of epideictic oratory, celebrating national values.
- Ceremonial rhetoric: A more general term for speeches given at public ceremonies, often synonymous with epideictic rhetoric.
Adjective
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designed primarily for rhetorical display
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epideictic orations
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