verboseness
41nimiety — n excess, overabundance, superabundance, overplus, extra, spare, surplus, surplusage, superflux; flood, deluge, inundation, profusion, abundance, cornucopia, horn of plenty; surfeit, glut, plethora, overflow, overload, oversupply, more than… …
42padding — n 1. pad, stuffing, wadding, filling, fiber fill, filler, lining, Obs. bombast; wrapping, wrapper, wrapping paper; packing, packing material, shredded newspaper, tissue paper, Trademark. Styrofoam, Chem. polystyrene, plastic bubbles. 2. verbiage …
43prolixity — n verbosity, verboseness, wordiness, long windedness, verbiage; tautology, redundance, pleonasm, battology; discursiveness, discursion, digression, rambling, maundering, wandering; circumlocution, circuity, ambagiousness, roundaboutness;… …
44rhetoric — n 1. eloquence, power of speech, appeal, forcefulness, expressiveness, cogency; elocution, diction, articulation, enunciation, intonation, vocalization, address, delivery; command of words, way with words, Inf. gift of gab, Archaic. facundity;… …
45turgidity — n 1. swelling, bloatedness, puffiness, turgescence, tumidity, intumescence, tumefaction, ballooning; distention, expansion, extension, enlargement; dilation, dilatation, inflation, Pathol. aneurysm, Pathol. varix. 2. bombast, grandiosity,… …
46verbose — /vɜˈboʊs / (say ver bohs) adjective expressed in, characterised by the use of, or using many or too many words; wordy. {Latin verbōsus full of words} –verbosely, adverb –verboseness, noun …
47verbosity — [n] wordiness garrulous, logorrhea, long windedness, loquaciousness, loquacity, prolixity, talkativeness, verbiage, verboseness; concept 267 …
48verbose — [vər bōs′] adj. [L verbosus, full of words < verbum,WORD] using or containing too many words; wordy; long winded; prolix SYN. WORDY verbosely adv. verbosity [vərbäs′ə tē] n. verboseness …
49ambage — noun a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things • Syn: ↑circumlocution, ↑periphrasis • Derivationally related forms: ↑ambagious, ↑periphrastic (for: ↑periphrasis), ↑circumlocutiou …
50expressive style — noun a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period all the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper • Syn: ↑style • Derivationally… …
