Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Needless amplification in writing or speaking; use of more words than are necessary or desirable; verbiage; verbosity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Superfluity of words.
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- noun
superfluity ofwords ;verbosity ;long-windedness
Etymologies
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Latin perissologia, from Ancient Greek.
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