noun

• (uncountable) A roundabout or indirect way of speaking; thus:
  "Circumlocution is a large deſcription either to ſette forth a thyng more gorgiouſlie, or els to hyde it, if the eares cannot beare the open ſpeakyng: or when with fewe woordes we cannot open our meanyng, to ſpeake it more largely."
• (uncountable) A roundabout or indirect way of speaking; thus:
• (uncountable) A roundabout or indirect way of speaking; thus:
  "A technical word, such as hyperkalemia or hypoallergenic, can be glossed for general audiences with a circumlocution, such as "high potassium level" or "less likely to cause allergies" (respectively)."
• (countable) An instance of such usage; a roundabout expression, whether an inadvisable one or a necessary one.