wordiness

wordiness: n

verbosity, verbiage, loquacity, garrulity, talkativeness, prolixity, long-windedness; glibness, Inf. gabbiness, Inf. gift of gab, Inf. windiness, Sl. gassiness, Sl. big mouth; circumlocution, digres-siveness, discursiveness, ambagiousness, circuitousness; repctitiveness, tautology, redundancy, padding, profuseness; running off at the mouth, diarrhea of the mouth, going on and on, talking nonstop, Sl. yackety-yak, Sl. gas, chatter.

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Wordiness — Word i*ness, n. The quality or state of being wordy, or abounding with words; verboseness. Jeffrey. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
wordiness — index fustian, prolixity Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
wordiness — wordy ► ADJECTIVE (wordier, wordiest) ▪ using or expressed in too many words. DERIVATIVES wordily adverb wordiness noun … English terms dictionary
wordiness — noun see wordy … New Collegiate Dictionary
wordiness — See wordily. * * * … Universalium
wordiness — noun The excessive, often unnecessary, use of words in a sentence. Syn: verbosity … Wiktionary
wordiness — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. redundance, redundancy, diffuseness, circumlocution, repetition, verbiage, verbosity, turgidity, prolixity, tautology, indirectness, periphrasis, flow of words, rhetoric, fullness, pleonasm, copiousness, bombast,… … English dictionary for students
wordiness — wordÂ·iÂ·ness || wÉœrdÉªnÉªs / wÉœË n. excessive use of words; overly verbal … English contemporary dictionary
wordiness — word·i·ness … English syllables
wordiness — noun boring verbosity • Syn: ↑prolixity, ↑prolixness, ↑windiness, ↑long windedness • Derivationally related forms: ↑long winded (for: ↑long windedness), ↑ … Useful english dictionary

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