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elegant variation
Elegant variation is the unnecessary, and sometimes misleading, use of synonyms to denote a single thing, driven by an imbalance in compositional tone in which an attempt to maintain euphony by avoiding monotonous repetition degrades clarity and inadvertently introduces a different kind of tonal problem (such as unintended humor or attention-drawing eccentricity). Henry Watson Fowler (1858–1933) coined the name ''elegant variation'' for this phenomenon. In his ''Dictionary of Modern English Usage'' (first edition, 1926), Fowler wrote:
Elegant variation may be seen in journalism if word variation, such as the replacement of the word "fire" with "blaze" or "conflagration", draws attention to itself. It is considered particularly problematic in legal writing, scientific writing, and other technical writing, where the avoidance of ambiguity is essential. Alternatives to synonymy include repetition and the use of pro-forms.
=="Inelegant variation"==
Bryan A. Garner in ''Garner's Modern American Usage'' proposes ''inelegant variation'' as a more appropriate name for the phenomenon, and asserts that, in coining the term ''elegant variation'', Fowler was using ''elegant'' in a then-current pejorative sense of "excessively or pretentiously styled". Richard W. Bailey denies Garner's contention, suggesting that Fowler's use of ''elegant'' was a deliberate irony. Nevertheless, ''inelegant variation'' has been used by others, including Gerald Lebovits and Wayne Schiess.
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