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officialese

noun
/ə.fɪ.ʃəˈliːz/UK

Etymology

From official + -ese.

  1. derived from officium
  2. derived from officiālis
  3. derived from official
  4. inherited from official
  5. suffixed as officialese — “official + ese”

Definitions

  1. The typical language of officials or official documents

    The typical language of officials or official documents; legalistic and pompous language.

    • These were men, the chronicler continued, who ‘spoke pleasantly’, in the smooth officialese that most of Henry's counsellors were accustomed to deploy […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for officialese. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA