verbosity

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. [1913 Webster] The worst fault, by far, is the extreme… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

verbosity — index fustian, prolixity, tautology Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

verbosity — (n.) 1540s, from Fr. verbosité (16c.) or directly from L. verbositas, from verbosus (see VERBOSE (Cf. verbose)) …   Etymology dictionary

verbosity — [n] wordiness garrulous, logorrhea, long windedness, loquaciousness, loquacity, prolixity, talkativeness, verbiage, verboseness; concept 267 …   New thesaurus

Verbosity — This article is about linguistic verbosity. For prolixity, a character in the BBC education programme, see Look and Read. Verbosity (also called wordiness, prolixity and garrulousness) in language refers to speech or writing which is deemed to… …   Wikipedia

verbosity — /veuhr bos i tee/, n. the state or quality of being verbose; superfluity of words; wordiness: His speeches were always marred by verbosity. [1535 45; < LL verbositas. See VERBOSE, ITY] Syn. prolixity, redundancy, turgidity. Ant. terseness,… …   Universalium

verbosity — verbose ► ADJECTIVE ▪ using or expressed in more words than are needed. DERIVATIVES verbosely adverb verbosity noun. ORIGIN Latin verbosus, from verbum word …   English terms dictionary

verbosity — noun see verbose …   New Collegiate Dictionary

verbosity — noun /vɜˈbɒsəti,vɝˈbɑsəti/ The excess use of words, especially using more than are needed for clarity or precision; long windedness Syn: verboseness …   Wiktionary

verbosity — Synonyms and related words: bedizenment, big mouth, bombast, candor, cloud of words, communicativeness, conversableness, duplication, duplication of effort, effusion, effusiveness, embellishment, expletive, extravagance, fat, featherbedding,… …   Moby Thesaurus

verbosity — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. circumlocution, loquacity, garrulity, prolixity; see wordiness . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. wordiness, long windedness, prolixity, tautology, loquaciousness. Shooting without aiming. William Benham. Superfluous breath …   English dictionary for students