Word Meanings - VERBOSITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or state of being verbose; the use of more words than are necessary; prolixity; wordiness; verbiage. The worst fault, by far, is the extreme diffuseness and verbosity of his style. Jeffrey.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of VERBOSITY)

• Circumlocution
• Periphrasis
• verbosity
• inconciseness
• insuccinctness
• ambiguousness
• anfractuosity
• Garrulity
• Verbosity
• loquacity
• talkativeness
• chatter
• Grandiloquence
• pomposity
• mouthiness
• grandiosity
• antiloquence
• stiltedness
• euphuism
• turgidity
• fustian
• bombast
• Tautology
• redundancy
• needless
• repetition
• pleonasm
• reiteration

Related words: (words related to VERBOSITY)

• NEEDLESS
  1. Having no need. Weeping into the needless stream. Shak. 2. Not wanted; unnecessary; not requiste; as, needless labor; needless expenses. 3. Without sufficient cause; groundless; cuseless. "Needless jealousy." Shak. -- Need"less*ly,
• LOQUACITY
  The habit or practice of talking continually or excessively; inclination to talk too much; talkativeness; garrulity. Too great loquacity and too great taciturnity by fits. Arbuthnot.
• GRANDILOQUENCE
  The use of lofty words or phrases; bombast; -- usually in a bad sense. The sin of grandiloquence or tall talking. Thackeray,
• BOMBAST
  a doublet of cotton; hence, padding, wadding, fustian. See 1. Originally, cotton, or cotton wool. A candle with a wick of bombast. Lupton. 2. Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding. How now, my sweet
• FUSTIAN
  1. Made of fustian. 2. Pompous; ridiculously tumid; inflated; bombastic; as, fustian history. Walpole.
• CHATTERATION
  The act or habit of chattering.
• AMBIGUOUSNESS
  Ambiguity.
• GARRULITY
  Talkativeness; loquacity.
• REPETITIONAL; REPETITIONARY
  Of the nature of, or containing, repetition.
• PLEONASM
  Redundancy of language in speaking or writing; the use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; as, I saw it with my own eyes.
• VERBOSITY
  The quality or state of being verbose; the use of more words than are necessary; prolixity; wordiness; verbiage. The worst fault, by far, is the extreme diffuseness and verbosity of his style. Jeffrey.
• REPETITIONER
  One who repeats.
• REPETITION
  The act of repeating, singing, (more info) 1. The act of repeating; a doing or saying again; iteration. I need not be barren of accusations; he hath faults, with surplus to tire in repetition. Shak. 2. Recital from memory; rehearsal.
• CIRCUMLOCUTION
  The use of many words to express an idea that might be expressed by few; indirect or roundabout language; a periphrese. the plain Billingagate way of calling names . . . would save abundance of time lost by circumlocution. Swift. Circumlocution
• TAUTOLOGY
  A repetition of the same meaning in different words; needless repetition of an idea in different words or phrases; a representation of anything as the cause, condition, or consequence of itself, as in the following lines: -- The dawn is overcast,
• CHATTERING
  The act or habit of talking idly or rapidly, or of making inarticulate sounds; the sounds so made; noise made by the collision of the teeth; chatter.
• REITERATION
  The act of reiterating; that which is reiterated.
• FUSTIANIST
  A writer of fustian. Milton.
• ANFRACTUOSITY
  A sinuous depression or sulcus like those separating the convolutions of the brain. (more info) 1. A state of being anfractuous, or full of windings and turnings; sinuosity. The anfractuosities of his intellect and temper. Macaulay.
• CHATTER
  Etym: 1. To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct. The jaw makes answer, as the magpie chatters. Wordsworth. 2. To talk idly, carelessly, or with undue rapidity; to jabber; to prate. To tame a shrew,
• CHATTERER
  A bird of the family Ampelidæ -- so called from its monotonous note. The Bohemion chatterer inhabits the arctic regions of both continents. In America the cedar bird is a more common species. See Bohemian chatterer, and Cedar bird. (more info)