verbosity

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Task definitions do not tend to be shorter than make targets, but the verbosity is an artifact of Python (function definitions and decorators, etc.) rather than anything inherent in the way Paver is designed.

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  1. The state or character of being verbose: employment of a superabundance of words; the use of more words than are necessary; wordiness; prolixity: said either of a speaker or writer, or of what is said or written. He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. Shak., L. L. L., v. 1. 18.
  2. Synonyms Verbiage, etc. See pleonasm.

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  • I've been tweaking the article little by little to tighten the wording (verbosity is a near-universal problem at Wikipedia) and otherwise improve it. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • Yet regardless of the length or verbosity, the effect of a poem and the amount of work which went into making it can be the same. —  AnimeBlogger.net Antenna
  • This verbosity was effectively an early form of sales advertising. —  The Millions
  • I embraced the verbosity, the meandering, breathless sentences that Wallace had imbued with just enough centripetal force not to break apart. —  The Tin Man
  • Task definitions do not tend to be shorter than make targets, but the verbosity is an artifact of Python (function definitions and decorators, etc.) rather than anything inherent in the way Paver is designed. —  Planet Python
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  1. from French verbosité = Spanish verbosidad = Portuguese verbosidade = Italian verbosità, from Late Latin verbosita(t-)s, wordiness, from Latin verbosus, wordy: see verbose.
 

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