Verbosity Synonyms and Antonyms

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Synonyms for Verbosity

loquacity
Talkativeness; the quality of being loquacious.
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prolixity
Any unnecessary or superfluous language or facts in evidence or in pleadings.
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circumlocution
The definition of circumlocution means the use of unneeded words.
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garrulity
The state or characteristic of being garrulous.
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diffuseness
(Uncountable) The state or quality of being diffuse.
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diffusion
The reflection or refraction of radiation such as light or sound by an irregular surface, tending to scatter it in many directions.
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long-windedness
Alternative spelling of long-windedness.
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pleonasm
A redundant word or expression
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redundancy
The definition of a redundancy is something that is repeated unnecessarily or something that is not useful because there is already another or more advanced version.
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verbiage
Overabundance of words
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windiness
The state of being windy (in all meanings)
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wordage
The number of words used in a text
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Antonyms for Verbosity

terseness
The characteristic of being terse.
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Words Related to Verbosity

wordiness
The excessive, often unnecessary, use of words in a sentence.
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words
Words or the use of words in excess of those needed for clarity or precision
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excess
The amount or degree by which one quantity exceeds another:
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style
A mode of living:
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verbose
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Verbosity Sentence Examples

  • It is true that here and there the "creamy richness" of his style becomes verbosity, and that he occasionally draws too freely on his inexhaustible store of epithets, metaphors and turns of speech; but these faults, which did not escape the censure even of friendly critics like Quintilian, are comparatively rare in the extant parts of his work.

  • Impressed by the belief that verbosity was the bane of science, he carried terseness to an extreme which frequently created obscurity, and this in no branch of zoology more than in that which relates to birds.

  • See an earlier problem for how to set the $ VERBOSITY variable to help locate the bad code leading to this memory exhaustion.

  • He saw also that much of the inefficiency of the Assembly arose from the inexperience of the members and their incurable verbosity; so, to establish some system of rules, he got his friend Romilly to draw up a detailed account of the rules and customs of the English House of Commons, which he translated into French, but which the Assembly, puffed up by a belief in its own merits, refused to use.

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