Aeolism

Meaning

Noun

• The use of the Aeolic language or its syntactic structures.
• A usage of Aeolic within a work in another language.
• A fictional religion in the works of Jonathan Swift that worships the wind in general, and rhetorical form over substance in particular.
• A tendancy toward rhetorical embellishments.
• A reference to or instance of wind; windiness.

Origin

• Aeolic + --ism
• From Aeolus, the Greek god of wind.