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verbosity
[ver-bos-i-tee]
noun
the state or quality of being verbose; superfluity of words; wordiness.
His speeches were always marred by verbosity.
Synonyms: , ,Antonyms: ,
Other Word Forms
- nonverbosity noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of verbosity1
Example Sentences
Sight unseen, this will be a feast of Washington’s verbosity, spinning a situation until it best suits him — and then maybe going a touch too far to where it doesn’t.
Its sportscasters are more judicious with their verbosity this time around too.
Russians are used to his history lessons, she went on, but American viewers “must be going nuts with all this historical verbosity.”
The differences, of course, are my unimpeachable taste and my extreme verbosity, neither of which I make any apology for.
Trump answered questions with such verbosity at the April deposition — veering from evasiveness to bluster to filibuster at times — that one lawyer worried his seven hours of sworn testimony could go until midnight.
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