| 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: | repetition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | duplication; doing again |
Synonyms: |
alliteration, broken record, chant, chorus, copy, echo, encore, ingemination, iteracy, iterance, iteration, litany, paraphrase, periodicity, perseveration, practice, reappearance, recapitulation, recital, recurrence, redundancy, rehearsal, reiteration, relation, renewal, reoccurrence, repeat, repetitiousness, replication, report, reproduction, restatement, return, rhythm, rote, staccato, tautology |
Antonyms: |
instance |
| 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: | 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 |
| Main Entry: | redundancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | repetition |
Synonyms: |
attrition, circumlocution, copiosity, macrology, overabundance, periphrasis, pleonasm, profusion, prolixity, superabundance, supererogation, superfluity, tautology, verbiage, verboseness, verbosity |
| 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: | pleonasm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wordiness |
Synonyms: |
circumlocution, copiousness, diffuseness, diffusion, garrulity, logorrhea, long-windedness, loquaciousness, loquacity, prolixity, redundance, redundancy, repetition, rhetoric, tautology, verbiage, verboseness, verbosity, windiness, wordage |
| 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: | verboseness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wordiness |
Synonyms: |
circumlocution, copiousness, diffuseness, diffusion, garrulity, logorrhea, long-windedness, loquaciousness, loquacity, pleonasm, prolixity, redundance, redundancy, repetition, rhetoric, tautology, verbiage, verbosity, windiness, wordage |