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verbosity
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Word definitions for verbosity in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an expressive style that uses excessive words [syn: verboseness ] [ant: terseness ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Verbosity or verboseness is speech or writing which uses more words than needed. A common example is "Despite the fact that" as a common replacement for "Although". Antonyms of verbosity include succinctness , concision , laconism , and plain language . ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Verbosity \Ver*bos"i*ty\, n.; pl. Verbosities . [L. verbositas: cf. F. verbosit['e].] The quality or state of being verbose; the use of more words than are necessary; prolixity; wordiness; verbiage. The worst fault, by far, is the extreme diffuseness ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, from French verbosité (16c.) or directly from Late Latin verbositas , from Latin verbosus (see verbose ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The excess use of words, especially using more than are needed for clarity or precision; long-windedness
Usage examples of verbosity.
When, however, he presented himself before Colonel Belford, it was to meet with a welcome so frigid and an address so reserved that a douche of cold water could not have quenched his verbosity more entirely.
He was, fortunately, a complete master of the French and Italian languages, so that when the fury of his irritation would become too excessive for him to control, he would ease his spirits by castigating his tormentors with a consuming verbosity in those foreign tongues, which, had his companions understood a single word of that which he uttered, would have earned for him a beating that would have landed him within an inch of his life.
Such verbosity from a usually laconic man made the duke smile to himself as he followed Fraser to the parlor.
His playful verbosity presents a potent contrast to the clipped and stripped corpspeak of Dryco, in much the same way as the baroque speech of the Ambients did in the first volume.
For Alfred CCLVII was given, even in the writing of chapter headings, to verbosity.
Grunts and thumps, the sound of helmet against helmet, the incessant screams of the pep squad, the boisterous verbosity of the fans-it verged on something wor~e than Dante had ever envisioned for the lowest circles of the Inferno.
I thought it would be useful also, in all new draughts, to reform the style of the later British statutes, and of our own acts of assembly, which from their verbosity, their endless tautologies, their involutions of case within case, and parenthesis within parenthesis, and their multiplied efforts at certainty by saids and aforesaids, by ors and by ands, to make them more plain, do really render them more perplexed and incomprehensible, not only to common readers, but to the lawyers themselves.