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VERBOSENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An expressive style that uses excessive or empty words
Synonyms:
verboseness; verbosity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("verboseness" is a kind of...):
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)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "verboseness"):
verbalism; verbiage (overabundance of words)
long-windedness; prolixity; prolixness; windiness; wordiness (boring verbosity)
ambage; circumlocution; periphrasis (a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things)
repetitiousness; repetitiveness (verboseness resulting from excessive repetitions)
pleonasm (using more words than necessary)
Antonym:
terseness (a neatly short and concise expressive style)
Derivation:
verbose (using or containing too many words)
