verbosity
51verbose — [[t]vɜː(r)bo͟ʊs[/t]] ADJ GRADED (disapproval) If you describe a person or a piece of writing as verbose, you are critical of them because they use more words than are necessary, and so make you feel bored or annoyed. [FORMAL] ...verbose… …
52verbiage — n 1. verbosity, verbality, verbalism, wordiness, prolixity, long windedness, longiloquence, multiloquence. See verbosity(def. 1). 2. wording, phraseology, phrasing, manner of expression; command of the language, way with words, feel for words,… …
53long-windedness — noun boring verbosity • Syn: ↑prolixity, ↑prolixness, ↑windiness, ↑wordiness • Derivationally related forms: ↑long winded, ↑windy (for: ↑windines …
54prolixity — noun boring verbosity • Syn: ↑prolixness, ↑windiness, ↑long windedness, ↑wordiness • Derivationally related forms: ↑long winded (for: ↑long windedness), ↑ …
55prolixness — noun boring verbosity • Syn: ↑prolixity, ↑windiness, ↑long windedness, ↑wordiness • Derivationally related forms: ↑long winded (for: ↑long windedness), ↑ …
56verboseness — noun an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words • Syn: ↑verbosity • Ant: ↑terseness • Derivationally related forms: ↑verbose (for: ↑verbosity), ↑verbose …
57windiness — noun 1. a mildly windy state of the air • Syn: ↑breeziness • Derivationally related forms: ↑windy, ↑breezy (for: ↑breeziness) • Hypernyms: ↑stormines …
58wordiness — noun boring verbosity • Syn: ↑prolixity, ↑prolixness, ↑windiness, ↑long windedness • Derivationally related forms: ↑long winded (for: ↑long windedness), ↑ …
59ver|bos|i|ty — «vur BOS uh tee», noun, plural ties. 1. the use of too many words; wordiness: »verbosity of writing. 2. an instance of this: »A…rhetorician [Gladstone], inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity (Benjamin Disraeli) …
60-osity — suffix forming nouns from adjectives in ose (see OSE(1)) and ous (verbosity; curiosity). Etymology: F ositeacute or L ositas ositatis: cf. ITY * * * suffix forming nouns from adjectives ending in ose (such as …
