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Verbosity

noun
(pl. verbosities)
1.
An expressive style that uses excessive or empty words.  Synonym: verboseness.





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"Verbosity" Quotes from Famous Books



... seemed to be nonsense. Cartoner read it slowly and carefully. It was an order, in brief and almost brutal language, to stay where he was and do the work intrusted to him. For a man who writes in a code must perforce avoid verbosity. ...
— The Vultures • Henry Seton Merriman
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... wrote the others from time to time during the year which followed, always very rapidly, and sometimes (as with 'What Mr. Robinson thinks') at one sitting. When I came to collect them and publish them in a volume, I conceived my parson-editor, with his pedantry and verbosity, his amiable vanity and superiority to the verses he was editing, as a fitting artistic background and foil. He gave me the chance, too, of glancing obliquely at many things which were beyond the horizon of ...
— The Biglow Papers • James Russell Lowell
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... or verbosity rather—for it has none of the logic or continuity of mortal utterances—does not continue uninterruptedly during the day, but observes special hours, when the guards are paying even less than their usual attention to the vagaries of their charges. Of these periods, ...
— The Subterranean Brotherhood • Julian Hawthorne
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Words linked to "Verbosity" :   verbiage, periphrasis, repetitiousness, prolixity, repetitiveness, prolixness, pleonasm, ambage, verbalism, style, windiness, verboseness, long-windedness, verbose, terseness, circumlocution, expressive style, wordiness


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