English > verbosity: 1 sense > noun 1, communication| Meaning | An expressive style that uses excessive or empty words. |
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| Synonym | verboseness |
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| Narrower | circumlocution, periphrasis, ambage | A style that involves indirect ways of expressing things |
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| 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 |
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| Opposite | terseness | A neatly short / short and concise expressive style |
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| Spanish | facundia, verbosidad |
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| Catalan | facúndia, verbositat |
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| Adjectives | verbose | using or containing too many words |
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