verbosity

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The previous record-holder was President Clinton, famously known for his Southern-twang verbosity.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026

It's that incredible thing that I'm sure is John Williams, where it's like, "OK, how do we communicate? We have to communicate on a musical level if we don't understand the verbosity of another species."

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2023

It will also let developers decide their AI's style of tone and verbosity.

From Reuters • Mar. 15, 2023

But it’s a shame when the character’s verbosity distracts from the trilogy’s other achievements: history rendered with immediacy, with tones and perspectives sometimes engagingly varied.

From Washington Post • Nov. 8, 2022

The style is too generally loose, digressive and inexact; dates are seldom given; and discursiveness, verbosity and dogmatism are frequent faults.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various