| Main Entry: | wordiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | verbosity |
Synonyms: |
circumlocution, copiousness, diffuseness, diffusion, garrulity, logorrhea, long-windedness, loquaciousness, loquacity, pleonasm, prolixity, redundance, redundancy, repetition, rhetoric, tautology, verbiage, verboseness, windiness |
Antonyms: |
directness, straightforwardness, terseness |
| Main Entry: | wordiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excessive in language |
Synonyms: |
catalogic, circumlocution, diffuseness, diffusion, fecundity, garrulity, logorrhea, loquaciousness, loquacity, macrology, officialese, periphrasis, pleonasm, prolixity, redundancy, tautology, verbality, verbiage, verbigeration, verbomania, verbosity |
Antonyms: |
conciseness |
| Main Entry: | circumlocution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indirect speech |
Synonyms: |
beating around the bush, circumambages, diffuseness, discursiveness, euphemism, gassiness, indirectness, periphrase, periphrasis, pleonasm, prolixity, roundabout, tautology, verbal evasion, verbality, verbiage, wordiness |
Antonyms: |
conciseness, directness, straightforwardness, terseness |
| Main Entry: | effusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | outpouring |
Synonyms: |
address, diffusion, discharge, effluence, effluvium, efflux, emanation, emission, exudate, gush, gushing, ooze, outflow, pouring, shedding, stream, verbosity, wordiness |
| Main Entry: | euphuism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inflation |
Synonyms: |
Gongorism, bombast, delicacy, floridness, fustian, grandiloquence, pomposity, purism, rhetoric, wordiness |
| Main Entry: | garrulity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | loquacity |
Synonyms: |
chattiness, garrulousness, glibness, grandiloquence, logorrhea, long-windedness, loquaciousness, prolixity, talkativeness, verboseness, verbosity, volubility, wordiness |
| Main Entry: | profuseness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | verbosity |
Synonyms: |
grandiloquence, prolixity, verbiage, wordiness |
| Main Entry: | redundancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | verbosity |
Synonyms: |
excess, overabundance, prolixity, repetition, superfluity, tautology, wordiness |