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WINDINESS
| Main Entry: |
flatulence
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pomposity |
| Synonyms: | babble, boasting, bombast, claptrap, empty talk, fustian, hot air, idle words, turgidity, twaddle, windiness |
| 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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Adjectives: |
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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