wordiness
81diffuseness — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Verbosity Nouns diffuseness, expatiation, enlargement, expansion, development, dilation, dilating; verbosity, loquacity; peroration, repetition; pleonasm, exuberance, redundance, thrice told tale;… …
82padding — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. pads, cushion, wadding; fill ins, additions; excess, extras, surplus; REPETiTion, tautology; featherbedding. See composition, covering. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Filling] Syn. stuffing, wadding, waste;… …
83repetition — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Act of repeating Nouns 1. repetition, reiteration, harping; recurrence, reappearance; ré sumé, recapitulation, run; tautology, monotony, rhythm, periodicity, redundance, alliteration; diffuseness. See… …
84rhetoric — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. oratory, eloquence, elocution, declamation, floridity. See speech. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Speech] Syn. composition, discourse, oratory, oration; see eloquence 1 , speech 3 . 2. [Grandiloquence] Syn.… …
85roundabout — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. circuitous, indirect. See circuity, deviation, diffuseness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. indirect, circuitous, devious, deviating; see indirect . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. 1. indirect… …
86verbose — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. wordy, prolix, repetitive, talkative. See diffuseness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. wordy, prolix, tedious, tautologous, redundant, repetitious, circumlocutory, repetitive, periphrastic, abounding in …
87declamation — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Discourse] Syn. lecture, address, oration, tirade; see speech 3 . 2. [Ranting] Syn. haranguing, spouting, oratory, speechmaking, speechifying*; see also wordiness . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. A usually formal oral… …
88diffusion — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. dissemination, spread, dispersion; see dissipation 1 , distribution 1 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. spreading, dispersal, scattering, dissemination, distribution, circulation, propagation. III (Roget s Thesaurus II)… …
89effusion — (Roget s IV) n. 1. [An outflow] Syn. diffusion, stream, emanation; see emanation 1 , flow . 2. [Unrestrained expression] Syn. gush, outpouring, volubility; see outbreak 1 , wordiness …
90euphuism — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. inflation, grandiloquence, floridness, ornateness of style, delicacy, purism, Gongorism, affected elegance of language, pomposity, bombast, fustian, rhetoric; see also wordiness …
