"elegant variation" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Introduced by H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler in The King's English (1906).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "elegant variations",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "elegant variation (countable and uncountable, plural elegant variations)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Literature",
          "orig": "en:Literature",
          "parents": [
            "Culture",
            "Entertainment",
            "Writing",
            "Society",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Language",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Communication",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Mass media",
          "orig": "en:Mass media",
          "parents": [
            "Culture",
            "Media",
            "Society",
            "Communication",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1999, Peter M. Tiersma, Legal Language, University of Chicago Press, page 131",
          "text": "A closely related rule for encoding legal texts is the same meaning, same form principle. We saw previously that this rule requires lawyers to avoid elegant variation. Instead, they should consistently use one word if they mean the same thing.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A form of journalese characterized by the overuse of synonyms for fear of repeating a word."
      ],
      "id": "en-elegant_variation-en-noun-v~E2Bf4M",
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        [
          "journalism",
          "journalism"
        ],
        [
          "literature",
          "literature"
        ],
        [
          "journalese",
          "journalese"
        ],
        [
          "overuse",
          "overuse"
        ],
        [
          "synonym",
          "synonym"
        ],
        [
          "repeating",
          "repeating"
        ],
        [
          "word",
          "word"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(journalism, literature) A form of journalese characterized by the overuse of synonyms for fear of repeating a word."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "monologophobia"
        },
        {
          "word": "synonymomania"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "inelegant variation"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "journalism",
        "literature",
        "media",
        "publishing"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Francis George Fowler",
        "H. W. Fowler",
        "The King's English"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "elegant variation"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Introduced by H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler in The King's English (1906).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "elegant variations",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "elegant variation (countable and uncountable, plural elegant variations)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "monologophobia"
    },
    {
      "word": "synonymomania"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "en:Literature",
        "en:Mass media"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1999, Peter M. Tiersma, Legal Language, University of Chicago Press, page 131",
          "text": "A closely related rule for encoding legal texts is the same meaning, same form principle. We saw previously that this rule requires lawyers to avoid elegant variation. Instead, they should consistently use one word if they mean the same thing.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A form of journalese characterized by the overuse of synonyms for fear of repeating a word."
      ],
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        [
          "journalism",
          "journalism"
        ],
        [
          "literature",
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        ],
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          "journalese"
        ],
        [
          "overuse",
          "overuse"
        ],
        [
          "synonym",
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        ],
        [
          "repeating",
          "repeating"
        ],
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          "word",
          "word"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(journalism, literature) A form of journalese characterized by the overuse of synonyms for fear of repeating a word."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "inelegant variation"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "journalism",
        "literature",
        "media",
        "publishing"
      ],
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        "Francis George Fowler",
        "H. W. Fowler",
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "elegant variation"
}