| Main Entry: | prolixity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wordiness |
Synonyms: |
circumlocution, copiousness, diffuseness, diffusion, garrulity, logorrhea, long-windedness, loquaciousness, loquacity, pleonasm, redundance, redundancy, repetition, rhetoric, tautology, verbiage, verboseness, verbosity, windiness, wordage |
| Main Entry: | prolixity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
ambagious, circumlocutory, copious, diffuse, digressive, discursive, episodic, excursive, exuberant, flatulent, frothy, largiloquent, lengthy, long, long, long drawn out, longsome, maundering, periphrastic, pleonastic, profuse, prolix, prosing, protracted, rambling, roundabout, spun out, verbose, wordy
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| 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: | verbiage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | repetition, wordiness |
Synonyms: |
circumlocution, expansiveness, floridity, long-windedness, loquacity, periphrase, periphrasis, pleonasm, prolixity, redundancy, tautology, verbosity |
Antonyms: |
conciseness |
| Main Entry: | verbosity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wordiness |
Synonyms: |
garrulous, logorrhea, long-windedness, loquaciousness, loquacity, prolixity, talkativeness, verbiage, verboseness |
| 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: | loquacity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | talkativeness |
Synonyms: |
garrulity, logorrhea, prolixity, verboseness |
| 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 |
| 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 |