verbosity
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7.3
- noun
- /vərˈbɑːsɪti/
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verborrea
- The CIA Head of Station, unlike the Whitehall civil servant who had almost sent the scientists to sleep with his verbosity, was direct and to the point.
Examples
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Despite what you may think, verbosity does not convey a sense of scholarship or authority.
Blog text (17) -
Well, that's enough verbosity for one day; hope they were good questions.
Blog text (8) -
"Despite what you must think, verbosity does not convey a sense of scholarship or authority.
Blog text (17) -
There was no need for the self-indulgent verbosity that resulted in such a long list of 20 "me firsts."
Blog text (4) -
If he didn't think this way, he would not employ the smoke and mirrors of rhetoric and verbosity, among other things.
Blog text (17) -
The lover's verbosity turns loving in the direction of writing, which takes up all the space of the lover's situation, and that is both its risk and its profit.
Academic text (2000) -
Consent forms for longitudinal research are particularly susceptible to verbosity and misapprehension.
Academic text (2008) -
James is famous for his verbosity, his overcomplicated syntax; his artistic universe is overtly cosmopolitan.
Academic text (2003) -
The speaker's verbosity made it difficult for the audience to follow his main points.
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Her essay was filled with unnecessary verbosity that obscured her argument.
Synonyms
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5.5
Long confused speech or writing that is hard to follow
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8.1
Language that uses too many words and is hard to understand
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9.2
Using many words to avoid saying something directly
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4.8
Using more language than needed in writing or speech
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9.9
A habit of using too many words that makes people bored
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7.5
Talking or writing with too many words makes people bored
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9.9
The habit of talking a lot
Using more words than needed so speech or writing is hard to follow
Speech or writing that uses too many words
The use of too many words that makes speech or writing long and boring
An excess of words that do not add meaning
Speaking or writing with more words than needed and making the meaning unclear
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
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Etymology
Verbosity comes from the Latin root verbum, which means 'word', and from verbose, which means 'full of words'; imagine someone filling a page with extra words, and you will see why verbosity means using more words than needed.