verboseness
21garrulity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. loquacity, wordiness, prolixity, verbosity. Ant., taciturnity. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. loquacity, wordiness, verbosity, glibness, grandiloquence, talkativeness, chattiness, garrulousness, volubility,… …
22loquacity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Talkativeness Nouns 1. loquacity, loquaciousness, talkativeness, volubility, garrulity, multiloquence, flow of words, gift of gab, eloquence, fluency. Slang, flannel mouth. See speech. 2. diffuseness,… …
23pleonasm — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. redundance, verbosity, diffuseness, tautology, superfluity, circumlocution, wordiness. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. redundancy, verbiage, circumlocution; see repetition , wordiness . III (Roget s Thesaurus …
24diffusion — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. dissemination, spread, dispersion; see dissipation 1 , distribution 1 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. spreading, dispersal, scattering, dissemination, distribution, circulation, propagation. III (Roget s Thesaurus II)… …
25redundancy — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. verbosity, tautology, superfluity; see excess , repetition , wordiness . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Words or the use of words in excess of those needed for clarity or precision: diffuseness, diffusion, long windedness,… …
26verbiage — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. repetition, verbosity, prolixity, loquacity; see wordiness . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. wordiness, long windedness, prolixity, verbosity, logorrhea, repetition, redundancy, loquacity, tautology. ANT.: concision,… …
27verbosity — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. circumlocution, loquacity, garrulity, prolixity; see wordiness . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. wordiness, long windedness, prolixity, tautology, loquaciousness. Shooting without aiming. William Benham. Superfluous breath …
28wordiness — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. redundance, redundancy, diffuseness, circumlocution, repetition, verbiage, verbosity, turgidity, prolixity, tautology, indirectness, periphrasis, flow of words, rhetoric, fullness, pleonasm, copiousness, bombast,… …
29long-windedness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Words or the use of words in excess of those needed for clarity or precision: diffuseness, diffusion, pleonasm, prolixity, redundancy, verbiage, verboseness, verbosity, windiness, word age, wordiness. See EXCESS, STYLE …
30prolixity — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Words or the use of words in excess of those needed for clarity or precision: diffuseness, diffusion, long windedness, pleonasm, redundancy, verbiage, verboseness, verbosity, windiness, wordage, wordiness. See EXCESS,… …
