ARTICULATENESS Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

articulateness

noun

Definition of articulateness

as in poetry

the art or power of speaking or writing in a forceful and convincing way obviously, articulateness was not what got that politician elected

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inarticulateness

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Noun

Her most recent work, Elegies (2023), a documentary about Hong Kong poetry, opened Hong Kong International Film Festival and was nominated for the Golden Horse Awards.

— Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 11 Oct. 2026
Robin Williams wore it as the unorthodox poetry teacher in Dead Poets Society; Donald Sutherland donned his own wide-wale version as the burnout professor in Animal House.

— John Vorwald, Robb Report, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of poetry

Noun

The political right has been targeting Indian Americans for more than a year, with racist rhetoric deployed against the H1-B visa program, Sikh truck drivers and Hindu temples and festivals.

— Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2026
Tweets about Cunningham, thinkpieces, and rebuttals have all swirled into an endless mass of controversy — one dominated by derogatory rhetoric, threats, and anti-trans memes.

— CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of rhetoric

Noun

Played by the six-foot-six David Prowse and voiced with eloquence and controlled rage by James Earl Jones, Vader is a force of inescapable menace throughout George Lucas’s Star Wars trilogy.

— John Roy, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2026
In their eloquence and their ways of avoiding easy comfort, the poems also deal with the hushed experience of surviving someone else’s death and fulfill the urge to say something not only real and true but formal and exact, as though for a ceremony.

— Colm Tóibín, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of eloquence

Noun

Users can customize not only the accent and gender of the voice assistant, but also the pace and expressiveness.

— Greta Cross, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2026
Houston could soar within it because Parton imbued it with a musical and sentimental purity that made room for the enormity of her expressiveness.

— Ann Powers, NPR, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of expressiveness

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