Excessively Synonymous. (genre) A genre in which the author intentionally gets carried away with the whole synonym thing, either to mock a character or to endear them charmingly to the reader. Example 1, in which a radio sports announcer gets obsessed with trying to find synonyms for "beat", so that he can list off a big list of which teams beat which others, without making the show monotonous in the announcers own eyes: ![[excessively-synonymous.jpg]] Example 2, in which the Joey character from Friends uses a thesaurus to write a letter of recommendation to an adoption agency for Chandler and Monica: > **Joey:** Hey, finished my recommendation. (he hands it over to Chandler) Here. And I think you’ll be very, very happy. It’s the longest I ever spent on a computer without looking at porn. > > **Chandler:** (reading) I don’t... uh... understand. > > **Joey:** (sounding very proud of himself) Some of the words are a little too sophisticated for ya? > > **Monica:** (also reading it) It doesn’t make any sense. > > **Joey:** Of course it does! It’s smart! I used the the-saurus! > > **Chandler:** On _every_ word? > > **Joey:** Yep! > > **Monica:** Alright, what was this sentence originally? (shows the sentence to Joey) > > **Joey:** Oh, ‘They are warm, nice, people with big hearts’. > > **Chandler:** And that became ‘they are humid prepossessing Homo Sapiens with full sized aortic pumps...? > > **Joey:** Yeah, yeah and hey, I really mean it, dude. > > **Monica:** Hey Joey, I don’t think we can use this. > > **Joey:** Why not? > > **Monica:** Well, because you signed it baby kangaroo Tribbiani! > > **Chandler:** You know what? You don’t need a thesaurus, just write from here, (points at heart) your full sized aortic pump.