'Verbosity' definitions:
Definition of 'verbosity'
From: WordNet
noun
An expressive style that uses excessive or empty words [syn: verboseness, verbosity] [ant: terseness]
Definition of 'Verbosity'
From: GCIDE
- Verbosity \Ver*bos"i*ty\, n.; pl. Verbosities. [L. verbositas: cf. F. verbosit['e].] The quality or state of being verbose; the use of more words than are necessary; prolixity; wordiness; verbiage. [1913 Webster]
- The worst fault, by far, is the extreme diffuseness and verbosity of his style. --Jeffrey. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'verbosity'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- bedizenment,
- big mouth,
- bombast,
- candor,
- cloud of words,
- communicativeness,
- conversableness,
- 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,
- grandiloquence,
- gregariousness,
- gush,
- gushiness,
- logorrhea,
- long-windedness,
- longiloquence,
- loose tongue,
- loquaciousness,
- loquacity,
- luxury,
- needlessness,
- openness,
- ornamentation,
- overadornment,
- overlap,
- padding,
- payroll padding,
- pleonasm,
- prolixity,
- redundance,
- redundancy,
- slush,
- sociability,
- spate of words,
- superfluity,
- superfluousness,
- talkativeness,
- tautology,
- unnecessariness,
- verbalism,
- verbality,
- verbiage,
- verboseness,
- volubility,
- windiness,
- wordiness