prolixity

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pro=lix=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

prolixity, n. [L. prolixitas: cf. F. prolixité.].

 The quality or state of being prolix; great length; minute detail; as, prolixity in discourses and writings.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]
"Idly running on with vain prolixity."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

prolixity

bedizenment, big mouth, boringness, candor, cloud of words, communicativeness, conversableness, dullness, 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, gregariousness, gush, gushiness, humdrumminess, humdrumness, irksomeness, logorrhea, long-windedness, longiloquence, loose tongue, loquaciousness, loquacity, luxury, monotonousness, needlessness, openness, ornamentation, overadornment, overlap, padding, payroll padding, pleonasm, redundance, redundancy, slush, sociability, spate of words, superfluity, superfluousness, talkativeness, tautology, tediousness, tiresomeness, unnecessariness, verbalism, verbality, verbiage, verboseness, verbosity, volubility, wearifulness, wearisomeness, windiness, wordiness

ROGET THESAURUS

prolixity

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.