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Noun Concept
Categories: Style (fiction), Semantics, Grammar, Phraseology, Semantics (linguistics)
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verboseness  verbosity
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An expressive style that uses excessive or empty words WordNet 3.0
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An expressive style that uses excessive or empty words WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Verbosity, or verboseness, is speech or writing that uses more words than necessary. Wikipedia
speech or writing that uses more words than necessary Wikidata
IS A
expressive style
HAS KIND
circumlocution
prolixity
pleonasm
repetitiveness
verbiage
+1 relations
ANTONYM
terseness
DERIVATION
long-winded
SAID TO BE THE SAME AS
pleonasm
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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verboseness, verbosity
Wikipedia
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verbosity
Wikidata
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verbosity
Wikipedia Redirections
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garrulous, Garrulously, Garrulousnesses, Gobshite, grandiloquent, logorrhea (rhetoric), logorrhoea (linguistics), loquacious, Loquatiousness, Macrologia, Over-talkative, Over talkative, overwriting (prose), Perissologia, prolix, Prolixious, Prolixities, prolixity, Prolixly, sesquipedalianism, talkative, Talkatively, talkativeness, Verbal diarrhea, Verbal Diarrhoea, Verbiages, verbose, verboseness, Verbosities, Word messiness, wordy
Wikidata Alias
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logorrhea

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