Thesaurus:verbosity

Thesaurus

verbosity

English

Noun

Sense: the excessive, often unnecessary, use of words

Synonyms

• ambages (plural only)
• circumlocution
• logorrhea, logorrhoea
• long-windedness
• overwordiness
• periphrase
• periphrasis
• perissology
• prolixity
• verboseness
• verbosity
• wordiness

Antonyms

• succinctness    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

• battology
• pleonasm
• tautology
•   —
• talkativeness    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hypernyms

• excess    [⇒ thesaurus]

Various

• verbiage

See also

• Thesaurus:verbose
• Thesaurus:word

Further reading

• “573. diffuseness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “verbosity” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.