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diffuseness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spread |
| Synonyms: | diffusion, dissemination, scatter, scattering |
| Concept: | Diffuseness. |
| Category: | 2. Conventional means; language generally; various qualities of style |
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-nouns
diffuseness; amplification; dilating; verbosity, verbiage, cloud of words, copia verborum; flow of words (loquacity); looseness., polylogy, tautology, battology, perissology; pleonasm, exuberance, redundance; thrice-told tale; prolixity; circumlocution, ambages; periphrase, periphrasis; roundabout phrases; episode; expletive; penny-a-lining; richness.
-verbs
be diffuse; run out on, descant, expatiate, enlarge, dilate, amplify, expand, inflate; launch out, branch out; rant., maunder, prose; harp upon (repeat); dwell on, insist upon., digress, ramble, battre la campagne, beat about the bush, perorate, spin a long yarn, protract; spin out, swell out, draw out; battologize.
-adjectives
diffuse, profuse; wordy, verbose, largiloquent, copious, exuberant, pleonastic, lengthy; longsome, longwinded, longspun, long drawn out; spun out, protracted, prolix, prosing, maundering; circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious, roundabout; digressive; discursive, excursive; loose; rambling, episodic; flatulent, frothy.
-adverbs
diffusely; at large, in extenso; about it and about it.
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| Antonyms: | conciseness |
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| Main Entry: | circumlocution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indirect speech |
| Synonyms: | beating around the bush, circumambages, diffuseness, discursiveness, euphemism, gassiness, indirectness, periphrase, periphrasis, pleonasm, prolixity, roundabout, tautology, verbal evasion, verbality, verbiage, wordiness |
| Antonyms: | conciseness, directness, straightforwardness, terseness |
| Main Entry: | wordiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excessive in language |
| Synonyms: | catalogic, circumlocution, diffuseness, diffusion, fecundity, garrulity, logorrhea, loquaciousness, loquacity, macrology, officialese, periphrasis, pleonasm, prolixity, redundancy, tautology, verbality, verbiage, verbigeration, verbomania, verbosity |
| Antonyms: | conciseness |
| Main Entry: | wordiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | verbosity |
| Synonyms: | circumlocution, copiousness, diffuseness, diffusion, garrulity, logorrhea, long-windedness, loquaciousness, loquacity, pleonasm, prolixity, redundance, redundancy, repetition, rhetoric, tautology, verbiage, verboseness, windiness |
| Antonyms: | directness, straightforwardness, terseness |
| Main Entry: | pleonasm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wordiness |
| Synonyms: | circumlocution, copiousness, diffuseness, diffusion, garrulity, logorrhea, long-windedness, loquaciousness, loquacity, prolixity, redundance, redundancy, repetition, rhetoric, tautology, verbiage, verboseness, verbosity, windiness, wordage |
| Main Entry: | prolixity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wordiness |
| Synonyms: | circumlocution, copiousness, diffuseness, diffusion, garrulity, logorrhea, long-windedness, loquaciousness, loquacity, pleonasm, redundance, redundancy, repetition, rhetoric, tautology, verbiage, verboseness, verbosity, windiness, wordage |
| Main Entry: | verboseness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wordiness |
| Synonyms: | circumlocution, copiousness, diffuseness, diffusion, garrulity, logorrhea, long-windedness, loquaciousness, loquacity, pleonasm, prolixity, redundance, redundancy, repetition, rhetoric, tautology, verbiage, verbosity, windiness, wordage |
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| Main Entry: | prolixity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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ambagious, circumlocutory, copious, diffuse, digressive, discursive, episodic, excursive, exuberant, flatulent, frothy, largiloquent, lengthy, long, long, long drawn out, longsome, maundering, periphrastic, pleonastic, profuse, prolix, prosing, protracted, rambling, roundabout, spun out, verbose, wordy
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