Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being verbose: employment of a superabundance of words; the use of more words than are necessary; wordiness; prolixity: said either of a speaker or writer, or of what is said or written.
- noun Synonyms Verbiage, etc. See
pleonasm .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being verbose; the use of more words than are necessary; prolixity; wordiness; verbiage.
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- noun The
excess use ofwords , especially using more than are needed forclarity orprecision ;long-windedness
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words
Etymologies
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Examples
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Sure I can indulge in verbosity, if I have the time or inclination.
Archive 2005-10-01 2005
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Sure I can indulge in verbosity, if I have the time or inclination.
Disappearing Act 2005
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Actions nearly always begets like reaction equal in verbosity. on June 24, 2009 at 7: 26 am | Reply inspectorgadget
Police Rudeness Shock « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Yet the unresting and unerring spirit of criticism may observe that even here the verbosity which is the fault of the whole division makes its appearance.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889
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I don’t think the verbosity is the key problem try reading St. Augustine, for example.
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The spoken form of logorrhoea (other than in the medical sense) is a kind of verbosity which uses superfluous
Latest Articles Real Clear Politics 2010
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With this presumption, only a philosopher or theologian would be able to enter the holy realms, but certainly not a child lacking sophisticated verbosity.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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If you listen to this guys recommendations prepare yourself because in close to 5 years of listening to his verbosity, he has condemned Ajijic as being the worse city, in Mexico with a cesspool the crazies in his community like to believe is a lake.
Pedestrian Friendly? 2009
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If you listen to this guys recommendations prepare yourself because in close to 5 years of listening to his verbosity, he has condemned Ajijic as being the worse city, in Mexico with a cesspool the crazies in his community like to believe is a lake.
Pedestrian Friendly? 2009
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If you listen to this guys recommendations prepare yourself because in close to 5 years of listening to his verbosity, he has condemned Ajijic as being the worse city, in Mexico with a cesspool the crazies in his community like to believe is a lake.
Pedestrian Friendly? 2009
derumi commented on the word verbosity
Some of the old text adventure games would have a setting for "maximum verbosity".
July 24, 2009