verbosity

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ver=bos=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

verbosity, n. [L. verbositas: cf. F. verbosité.].

 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."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

verbosity

Diffuseness

N diffuseness, amplification, dilating, verbosity, verbiage, cloud of words, copia verborum, flow of words, looseness, Polylogy, tautology, battology, perissology, pleonasm, exuberance, redundancy, thrice-told tale, prolixity, circumlocution, ambages, periphrase, periphrasis, roundabout phrases, episode, expletive, pennya-lining, richness, diffuse, profuse, wordy, verbose, largiloquent, copious, exuberant, pleonastic, lengthy, longsome, long-winded, longspun, long drawn out, spun out, protracted, prolix, prosing, maundering, circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious, roundabout, digressive, discursive, excursive, loose, rambling episodic, flatulent, frothy, diffusely, at large, in extenso, about it and about it.

Loquacity

N loquacity, loquaciousness, talkativeness, garrulity, multiloquence, much speaking, jaw, gabble, jabber, chatter, prate, prattle, cackle, clack, twaddle, twattle, rattle, caquet, caquetterie, blabber, bavardage, bibble-babble, gibble-gabble, small talk, fluency, flippancy, volubility, flowing, tongue, flow of words, flux de bouche, flux de mots, copia verborum, cacoethes loquendi, furor loquendi, verbosity, gift of the gab, talker, chatterer, chatterbox, babbler, rattle, ranter, sermonizer, proser, driveler, blatherskite, gossip, magpie, jay, parrot, poll, Babel, moulin a paroles, loquacious, talkative, garrulous, linguacious, multiloquous, largiloquent, chattering, chatty, declamatory, open-mouthed, fluent, voluble, glib, flippant, long tongued, long winded, trippingly on the tongue, glibly, off the reel, the tongue running fast, the tongue running loose, the tongue running on wheels, all talk and no cider, foul whisperings are abroad, what a spendthrift is he of his tongue!.