English > verbosity: 1 sense > noun 1, communicationMeaning | 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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