as in wordiness
the use of too many words to express an idea
your ideas are good, but your penchant for verbosity is unfortunate
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Recent Examples of verbosity
Coogler can let his characters’ verbosity get the better of story momentum.
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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2025
Still, the challenge lies in managing the explosive verbosity that modern tools enable effortlessly.
—Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
Crisp articulation of ideas trumps verbosity, fostering a culture that treasures originality and respect for the reader’s time.
—Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
Anyway, political verbosity, as measured by State of the Union addresses, has risen during the twenty-first century.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
When that’s chucked in a blender with his own penchant for spiky-savvy verbosity, the results fizz and pop.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024
But many French are deeply sick of hearing his volcanic verbosity.
—Lee Hockstader, Washington Post, 1 July 2024
Williams is regarded as a smart player, but has always played with a lot of emotion — and verbosity.
—Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2024
The spirit of Lester Bangs was coursing through the site, which became known for ridiculously purple prose and an electric verbosity that could thrill or grate, depending on the reader.
—Hazlitt, 24 Jan. 2024
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2025
Still, the challenge lies in managing the explosive verbosity that modern tools enable effortlessly.
—Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
Crisp articulation of ideas trumps verbosity, fostering a culture that treasures originality and respect for the reader’s time.
—Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
Anyway, political verbosity, as measured by State of the Union addresses, has risen during the twenty-first century.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
When that’s chucked in a blender with his own penchant for spiky-savvy verbosity, the results fizz and pop.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024
But many French are deeply sick of hearing his volcanic verbosity.
—Lee Hockstader, Washington Post, 1 July 2024
Williams is regarded as a smart player, but has always played with a lot of emotion — and verbosity.
—Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2024
The spirit of Lester Bangs was coursing through the site, which became known for ridiculously purple prose and an electric verbosity that could thrill or grate, depending on the reader.
—Hazlitt, 24 Jan. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for verbosity
Noun
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People who completed the 10 repetitions for each exercise easily for two consecutive sessions moved up to a harder version of the exercise.—
Kristen Fischer,
Health,
17 Apr. 2025
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He was inspired by the terse, concrete lines of Gertrude Stein and the repetition printmaking of Andy Warhol.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
15 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Just as the limitless space of web text tempts writers to indulge their logorrhea, the blinking, ever-transmuting, cartoonish interface of web browsers prevents would-be readers from paying attention to anything for longer than about 7 seconds.—
Barton Swaim,
WSJ,
19 Sep. 2022
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Nor has Musk kept his Twitter logorrhea in check in other respects.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Apr. 2022
Noun
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On their website, the three yellow stripes are prominently featured on the website under the Black Lives Matter wordage, and used on their social media accounts.—
Amritpal Kaur Sandhu-Longoria,
USA TODAY,
29 Mar. 2023
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Reached by the Union-Tribune Wednesday morning, Lindsey differed with McGillis’ wordage.—
Don Norcross,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Mar. 2023
Noun
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President Wants ‘Fair Deals’ With Other Countries—But Unlikely Before Midnight Deadline Google’s Android Update—Bad News For Samsung And Pixel Users How does diffusion work?—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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In February, John Smedley launched a diffusion line, JS by John Smedley, which is sold exclusively at John Lewis, that retails for $56 to $239, below the average of $305 in its core line.—
Hikmat Mohammed,
Footwear News,
7 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Here, instead, she’s swayed by a dead Diana softly squeezing her hand and kindly hinting — the dead Diana is an ace at tactful circumlocution — that now is the time to show a mourning nation some emotion.—
Tom Gliatto,
Peoplemag,
16 Nov. 2023
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By condensing Balzac’s opus to a few paragraphs, Barthelme was having a laugh not just at his predecessor’s genteel circumlocution—his tendency to describe buildings and manufacturing procedures and family trees in lavish detail—but also at the conventions of novelistic mimesis itself.—
Giles Harvey,
The New York Review of Books,
23 Apr. 2020
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“Verbosity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/verbosity. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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