verbosity
Verbosity is a quality possessed by people who talk a lot while saying very little at all.
The root verb — also seen in verbal — is a clue this word has to do with talking. Specifically, verbosity is the quality of gabbing and blabbing at length. That might sound like a talent, and it sort of is, but usually the words are a bit empty. You could be accused of verbosity if you like to exaggerate or wax poetic. Most of the time, verbosity is empty talk — a whole lot of nothing dressed up in too many words.
Definitions of verbosity
an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words
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synonyms:
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Antonyms:
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tersenessa neatly short and concise expressive style
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types:
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verbalism, verbiageoverabundance of words
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long-windedness, prolixity, prolixness, windiness, wordinessboring verbosity
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ambage, circumlocution, periphrasisa style that involves indirect ways of expressing things
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repetitiousness, repetitivenessverboseness resulting from excessive repetitions
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pleonasmusing more words than necessary
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flatulence, turgidity, turgidnesspompously embellished language
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redundancyrepetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission
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tautologyuseless repetition
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type of:
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expressive style, stylea way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period
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terseness
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