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verbosity

noun as in wordiness

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The last chapter, however, surpasses all the others in verbosity.

He must learn to exchange his verbosity for action in the great battle of life.

She was glad that she did not have to talk, that her new employer's verbosity covered up her own silence.

An unnecessary profusion of words is called verbiage: verbosity, wordiness.

Its first meaning of "abundance" is liable, as Erasmus begins by showing, to be understood as mere verbosity.

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On this page you'll find 19 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to verbosity, such as: logorrhea, long-windedness, loquaciousness, loquacity, prolixity, and talkativeness.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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