verbality
- noun
- /vɜrˈbælɪti/
:
verbosidad
- The professor's verbality made the lecture difficult to follow for many students.
Examples
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Her writing style is marked by verbality, which sometimes obscures her main arguments.
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Editors often reduce verbality to make articles clearer and more engaging.
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His verbality often obscures the main point of his argument.
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The meeting was filled with unnecessary verbality.
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The professor's verbality made the lecture difficult to follow for many students.
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Editors often reduce verbality to make articles clearer and more engaging.
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The meeting was filled with unnecessary verbality that distracted from the key decisions.
Synonyms
11
8.1
Language that uses too many words and is hard to understand
1
7.3
Using more words than needed when speaking or writing
1
4.7
A habit of talking a lot
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4.8
Using more language than needed in writing or speech
1
9.9
A habit of using too many words that makes people bored
1
7.5
Talking or writing with too many words makes people bored
1
9.9
The habit of talking a lot
Using more words than needed so speech or writing is hard to follow
The use of too many words that makes speech or writing long and boring
Speaking or writing with more words than needed and making the meaning unclear
An excess of words that do not add meaning
Using more words than needed to say something in a roundabout way
A phrase that uses more words than needed
Lack of focus in speech or writing that makes ideas hard to follow
Speech or writing that uses big, fancy words to sound important
Antonyms
How Wordy
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5.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word verbality comes from the Latin verbum, meaning 'word', plus -ity, so a simple memory is 'wordiness'; verbality can mean using too many words, which makes speech or writing hard to follow.