Synonyms for verbosity
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Noun
1. Wordiness
wordiness, verbiage, tautology, prolixity, verboseness, circumlocution, logorrhea US, logorrhoea UK, long-windedness, overwordiness, ambages dated, longiloquence dated
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Definitions
- n. 1
The excess use of words, especially using more than are needed for clarity or precision.
Related words
- Is a kind of
- excess
Forms
- Plural
- verbosities → wordinesses, verbiages, tautologies, prolixities…
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Verbosity and wordiness denote an excess of words in proportion to the thought.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- verbiage Words should be meaningful, not just verbiage.
- tautology "That's a tautology." "No it's not. It's a paradox."
- garrulity Tom's garrulity is really starting to get on my nerves.
By length
- 7 letters
- ambages
- 8 letters
- verbiage3
- 9 letters
- tautology, wordiness, prolixity, logorrhea, garrulity
- 10 letters
- logorrhoea
- 11 letters
- verboseness
- 13 letters
- overwordiness, longiloquence
- 14 letters
- circumlocution, grandiloquence
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (verbiage3 = 3 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- verbosité
- Italiano
- verbosità
- Español
- verbosidad