Verbosity

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Verbosity \Ver*bos"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Verbosities}. [L. verbositas:
     cf. F. verbosit['e].]
     The quality or state of being verbose; the use of more words
     than are necessary; prolixity; wordiness; verbiage.
     [1913 Webster]
  


           The worst fault, by far, is the extreme diffuseness and
           verbosity of his style.                  --Jeffrey.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  verbosity
       n : an expressive style that uses excessive words [syn: {verboseness}]
           [ant: {terseness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  71 Moby Thesaurus words for "verbosity":
     bedizenment, big mouth, bombast, candor, cloud of words,
     communicativeness, conversableness, duplication,
     duplication of effort, effusion, effusiveness, embellishment,
     expletive, extravagance, fat, featherbedding, filling,
     flow of words, flowing tongue, fluency, fluent tongue,
     flux de bouche, flux de paroles, flux of words, frankness, frill,
     frills, frippery, garrulity, garrulousness, gassiness, gift of gab,
     gingerbread, glibness, grandiloquence, gregariousness, gush,
     gushiness, logorrhea, long-windedness, longiloquence, loose tongue,
     loquaciousness, loquacity, luxury, needlessness, openness,
     ornamentation, overadornment, overlap, padding, payroll padding,
     pleonasm, prolixity, redundance, redundancy, slush, sociability,
     spate of words, superfluity, superfluousness, talkativeness,
     tautology, unnecessariness, verbalism, verbality, verbiage,
     verboseness, volubility, windiness, wordiness