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verbosity noun [ vəˈbɒsɪti ]

• the fact or quality of using more words than needed; wordiness.
• "a critic with a reputation for verbosity"
Similar: wordiness, verboseness, loquacity, garrulity, talkativeness, volubility, expansiveness, babbling, blathering, prattling, prating, jabbering, gushing, long-windedness, lengthiness, protractedness, verbiage, prolixity, periphrasis, tautology, circumlocution, convolution, redundancy, diffuseness, discursiveness, digressiveness, the gift of the gab, big mouth, mouthiness, gassiness, gabbiness, windiness, blah-blah, gobbledygook, wittering, waffling, orotundity, logorrhoea, multiloquence, pleonasm, perissology,
Opposite: brevity, taciturnity,


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