diction

Meaning

1. Choice and use of words, especially with regard to effective communication.
2. The effectiveness and degree of clarity of word choice and expression.
3. Enunciation, pronunciation.

Synonyms

phraseology

wording

verbiage

enunciation

phrasing

parlance

choice of words

rhetoric

articulation

wordage

speech

expression

parade

performance

phrase

presentation

production

pronunciation

proposal

proposition

question

❓

recital

recitation

rendering

rendition

representation

saying

show

staging

style

syntax

terms

torrent of words

usage

verbalism

word

words

raree-show

speech pattern

theatrical production

language

screening

public presentation

characterisation

delivery

display

eloquence

formulating

grammar

idiom

intro

locution

motion

oratory

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈdɪkʃən/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: diccion

In summary

From late Middle English diccion (“something said; a word or phrase”) (an obsolete sense in Modern English), borrowed directly from Latin dictiō (“a saying, speaking, uttering”) or from Old French dicïon (“word”) (Anglo-Norman dictyoun), from Late Latin dictiō (“word”), both from dīcō (“to say, to talk”) + -tiō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- (“to show, to point out”).
The modern senses of “choice and use of words” and “clarity of word choice” were likely influenced by additional senses of dictiō.