| NOUN | communication | verboseness, verbosity | an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words |
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| Meaning | An expressive style that uses excessive or empty words. | |
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| Synonym | verbosity | |
| Narrower | circumlocution, periphrasis, ambage | A style that involves indirect ways of expressing things |
| pleonasm | Using more words than necessary | |
| prolixity, prolixness, windiness, long-windedness, wordiness | boring verbosity | |
| repetitiveness, repetitiousness | verboseness resulting from excessive repetitions | |
| verbiage, verbalism | overabundance of words | |
| Broader | expressive style, style | A way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period |
| Opposite | terseness | A neatly short / short and concise expressive style |
| Spanish | facundia, verbosidad | |
| Catalan | facúndia, verbositat | |
| Adjectives | verbose | using or containing too many words |
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