'Prolixity' definitions:
Definition of 'prolixity'
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noun
Definition of 'Prolixity'
From: GCIDE
- Prolixity \Pro*lix"i*ty\, n. [L. prolixitas: cf. F. prolixit['e].] The quality or state of being prolix; great length; minute detail; as, prolixity in discourses and writings. "For fulsomeness of his prolixitee." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Idly running on with vain prolixity. --Drayton. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'prolixity'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- bedizenment,
- big mouth,
- boringness,
- candor,
- cloud of words,
- communicativeness,
- conversableness,
- dullness,
- duplication,
- duplication of effort,
- effusion,
- effusiveness,
- embellishment,
- expletive,
- extravagance,
- fat,
- featherbedding,
- filling,
- flow of words,
- flowing tongue,
- fluency,
- fluent tongue,
- flux de bouche,
- flux de paroles,
- flux of words,
- frankness,
- frill,
- frills,
- frippery,
- garrulity,
- garrulousness,
- gassiness,
- gift of gab,
- gingerbread,
- glibness,
- gregariousness,
- gush,
- gushiness,
- humdrumminess,
- humdrumness,
- irksomeness,
- logorrhea,
- long-windedness,
- longiloquence,
- loose tongue,
- loquaciousness,
- loquacity,
- luxury,
- monotonousness,
- needlessness,
- openness,
- ornamentation,
- overadornment,
- overlap,
- padding,
- payroll padding,
- pleonasm,
- redundance,
- redundancy,
- slush,
- sociability,
- spate of words,
- superfluity,
- superfluousness,
- talkativeness,
- tautology,
- tediousness,
- tiresomeness,
- unnecessariness,
- verbalism,
- verbality,
- verbiage,
- verboseness,
- verbosity,
- volubility,
- wearifulness,
- wearisomeness,
- windiness,
- wordiness