Origin: Latin suffix -tion
Circumlocution has 4 different meanings across 1 category:
a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things
an indirect way of expressing something
A roundabout or indirect way of speaking; thus:
Unnecessary use of extra words to express an idea, such as a pleonastic phrase (sometimes driven by an attempt at emphatic clarity) or a wordy substitution (the latter driven by euphemistic intent, pedagogic intent, or sometimes loquaciousness alone).