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Definition of verbosity in English: verbositynounvəˈbɒsɪtivərˈbɑsədi mass nounThe fact or quality of using more words than needed; wordiness. a critic with a reputation for verbosity Example sentencesExamples - I have never felt so attracted to pompous verbosity.
- For all its verbosity, the task-force report never explains its central conceit: ‘equity in hiring.’
- Keep it curt, Kenny, and stop soft-soaping us with your loquacity and verbosity.
- Yet woe to those who are silent about you because, though loquacious with verbosity, they have nothing to say.
- Another common addiction is to replace ‘at all’ by the verbosity of ‘in any way, shape or form’.
Synonyms wordiness, verboseness, loquacity, garrulity, talkativeness, volubility, expansiveness, babbling, blathering, waffling, prattling, prating, jabbering, gushing long-windedness, lengthiness, protractedness, verbiage, prolixity, periphrasis, tautology, circumlocution, convolution, redundancy diffuseness, discursiveness, digressiveness informal the gift of the gab, big mouth, mouthiness, gassiness, gabbiness, windiness, blah-blah, gobbledegook British informal wittering rare orotundity, logorrhoea, multiloquence, pleonasm, perissology
Rhymesanfractuosity, animosity, atrocity, bellicosity, curiosity, fabulosity, ferocity, generosity, grandiosity, impecuniosity, impetuosity, jocosity, luminosity, monstrosity, nebulosity, pomposity, ponderosity, porosity, preciosity, precocity, reciprocity, religiosity, scrupulosity, sinuosity, sumptuosity, velocity, virtuosity, viscosity Definition of verbosity in US English: verbositynounvərˈbäsədēvərˈbɑsədi The quality of using more words than needed; wordiness. a critic with a reputation for verbosity Example sentencesExamples - Keep it curt, Kenny, and stop soft-soaping us with your loquacity and verbosity.
- I have never felt so attracted to pompous verbosity.
- Another common addiction is to replace ‘at all’ by the verbosity of ‘in any way, shape or form’.
- For all its verbosity, the task-force report never explains its central conceit: ‘equity in hiring.’
- Yet woe to those who are silent about you because, though loquacious with verbosity, they have nothing to say.
Synonyms wordiness, verboseness, loquacity, garrulity, talkativeness, volubility, expansiveness, babbling, blathering, waffling, prattling, prating, jabbering, gushing |