Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state of being prolix; extension; length. Length in a material sense.
[Rare.] - n. Lengthiness; minute and superfluous detail; tediousness.
Wiktionary
- n. long-windedness, an excess of words
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality or state of being prolix; great length; minute detail.
WordNet 3.0
- n. boring verbosity
Examples
“I shall want the rest to lengthen out the 9th for which the business with Burgundy affords not enough materials. prolixity is always bad.”
“I fancy, though, that I have said too much about him already, and my prolixity is the more uncalled for as he is not the hero of my story.”
“But he often takes a false measure of their importance; and his superfluous prolixity is disagreeably balanced by his unseasonable brevity.] 66 Chishull, a curious traveller, has remarked the breadth of the Danube, which he passed to the south of Bucharest near the conflux of the Argish, (p. 77.)”
“The poem was reduced to twelve cantos, all its so-called prolixity was eliminated and it was revised in accordance with eighteenth century taste and made "reasonable and elegant".”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
“-- Forgive my prolixity, which is yet too brief for all I could wish to say.”
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb
“Can you imagine if every sign accommodated this kind of prolixity?”
“The 'prolixity' of descriptions of experiments and the detailed, naturalistic illustrations that went into the society's publications aimed to create the impression of verisimilitude.”
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
“It has not the prolixity which is so common a fault of apocalyptic commentators.”
“That may have something to do with Ms. Oates's prolixity.”
“Peter Kemp further complains of the "pitiless prolixity" with which Aue tells his story and doubts "Aue's prodigious capacity to recall in profuse, minute detail all that was done and said ....”
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paraphenalia
haberdashery, desideratum, esoteric, retribution, retrograde, tetrahedron, iridescent, tentative, siphon, soothsayer, wanderlust, patina and 16 more...
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chained_bear "'I am sorry you had to endure that fellow. It must have seemed very long.'
"'The gentleman's second name is Prolixity.'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Nutmeg of Consolation, 88 Mar 6, 2008