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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wordiness |
| Synonyms: | garrulous, logorrhea, long-windedness, loquaciousness, loquacity, prolixity, talkativeness, verbiage, verboseness |
| Main Entry: | rhetoric |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wordiness; long speech |
| Synonyms: | address, balderdash, big talk, bombast, composition, discourse, elocution, eloquence, flowery language, fustian, grandiloquence, hot air, hyperbole, magniloquence, oration, oratory, pomposity, rant, verbosity |
| Antonyms: | conciseness |
| 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: | garrulity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | loquacity |
| Synonyms: | chattiness, garrulousness, glibness, grandiloquence, logorrhea, long-windedness, loquaciousness, prolixity, talkativeness, verboseness, verbosity, volubility, wordiness |
| 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: | 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: | diffuseness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wordiness |
| Synonyms: | circumlocution, diffusion, long-windedness, prolixity, rambling, verbiage, verboseness, verbosity, wordage |
| 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 |
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