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Long-windedness   Listen
Long-windedness

noun
1.
Boring verbosity.  Synonyms: prolixity, prolixness, windiness, wordiness.






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"Long-windedness" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the larger kind. The faults and the merits of that kind, as such, appear in it after a fashion which can hardly fail to be instructive and suggestive. The faults so frequently charged against that "dear defunct" in our own tongue, the three-volume novel—the faults of long-windedness, of otiose padding, of unnecessary episodes, etc., are almost mechanically or mathematically impossible in the nouvelle. The long book provides pastime in its literal sense, and if it is not obvious in the other ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 - From the Beginning to 1800 • George Saintsbury



Words linked to "Long-windedness" :   concise, prolixness, turgidity, flatulence, long-winded, prolix, wordiness, verboseness, turgidness, verbosity



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