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| Main Entry: |
wordiness
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| 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: | 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: | effusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | outpouring |
| Synonyms: | address, diffusion, discharge, effluence, effluvium, efflux, emanation, emission, exudate, gush, gushing, ooze, outflow, pouring, shedding, stream, verbosity, wordiness |
| Main Entry: | euphuism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inflation |
| Synonyms: | Gongorism, bombast, delicacy, floridness, fustian, grandiloquence, pomposity, purism, rhetoric, wordiness |
| 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: | profuseness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | verbosity |
| Synonyms: | grandiloquence, prolixity, verbiage, wordiness |
| Main Entry: | redundancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | verbosity |
| Synonyms: | excess, overabundance, prolixity, repetition, superfluity, tautology, wordiness |
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