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tautology
[taw-tol-uh-jee] 
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circumlocution
[sur-kuhm-loh-kyoo-shuhn]
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| 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: | verbiage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | repetition, wordiness |
| Synonyms: | circumlocution, expansiveness, floridity, long-windedness, loquacity, periphrase, periphrasis, pleonasm, prolixity, redundancy, tautology, verbosity |
| Antonyms: | conciseness |
| Main Entry: | redundancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | verbosity |
| Synonyms: | excess, overabundance, prolixity, repetition, superfluity, tautology, wordiness |
| 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: | redundancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | repetition |
| Synonyms: | attrition, circumlocution, copiosity, macrology, overabundance, periphrasis, pleonasm, profusion, prolixity, superabundance, supererogation, superfluity, tautology, verbiage, verboseness, verbosity |
| 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: | 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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