Prolixity Synonyms

Words or the use of words in excess of those needed for clarity or precision
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. long-windedness
  2. windiness
  3. wordiness
  4. diffuseness
  5. diffusion
  6. pleonasm
  7. redundancy
  8. verbiage
  9. prolixness
  10. verboseness
  11. verbosity
  12. wordage

Words Related to Prolixity

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Prolixity Sentence Examples

  • To avoid dryness and prolixity he condensed quotations, and occasionally employed the Thucydidean method of abridgment or representation in place of fact catalogues.

  • Notwithstanding its prolixity, this is an interesting work.

  • Prayers and other formulas have been copied down by Sahagun and other chroniclers, of endless prolixity, but not without occasional touches of pathos.

  • In spite of that, Lydgate is characteristically medieval - medieval in his prolixity, his platitude, his want of judgment and his want of taste; medieval also in his pessimism, his Mariolatry and his horror of death.

  • His prolixity was increased by his unwillingness, when writing without prescribed limits, to leave out any detail, however unimportant.

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