periergia UK /ˌpɛ.ɹiˈɜː.d͡ʒi.ə/US /ˌpɛ.ɹiˈɝ.d͡ʒi.ə/ noun1 •(rhetoric) The use of an excessively elaborate or elevated style to discuss a trivial matter; bombastic or laboured language.The first place in which almost all of us encounter discourses of polypragmosyne, and latterly of periergia, is in the literature of fifth- and fourth-century BC Athens. — 2013