Verbosity is a term indicating speech or writing which is deemed to use an excess of words. Synonyms for verbosity include wordiness, prolixity, grandiloquence, garrulousness, expatiation, and logorrhea. Corresponding adjectival forms are verbose, wordy, prolix, grandiloquent, garrulous, and logorrheic. Examples of verbosity are common in political speech, academic prose, and other genres.
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- Naturally it takes a good deal of Pencil to say a long thing like that.
- A. A. Milne, in Winnie-the-Pooh (1926).
- He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
- William Shakespeare, in Love's Labours Lost Scene I.
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