Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. 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.
- n. Synonyms Verbiage, etc. See pleonasm.
Wiktionary
- n. The excess use of words, especially using more than are needed for clarity or precision; long-windedness
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality or state of being verbose; the use of more words than are necessary; prolixity; wordiness; verbiage.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words
Etymologies
- verbose + -ity; compare Late Latin verbositas, from (Classical) Latin verbosus, from verbum "the word" (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Sure I can indulge in verbosity, if I have the time or inclination.”
“Actions nearly always begets like reaction equal in verbosity. on June 24, 2009 at 7: 26 am | Reply inspectorgadget”
“Yet the unresting and unerring spirit of criticism may observe that even here the verbosity which is the fault of the whole division makes its appearance.”
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
“I don’t think the verbosity is the key problem try reading St. Augustine, for example.”
“The spoken form of logorrhoea (other than in the medical sense) is a kind of verbosity which uses superfluous”
“With this presumption, only a philosopher or theologian would be able to enter the holy realms, but certainly not a child lacking sophisticated verbosity.”
“If you listen to this guys recommendations prepare yourself because in close to 5 years of listening to his verbosity, he has condemned Ajijic as being the worse city, in Mexico with a cesspool the crazies in his community like to believe is a lake.”
“After a year of verbosity, give the Human Ears a break!”
“But a writing scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology presented research questioning the ETS findings, and arguing that the testing service's formula for automated essay grading favors verbosity over originality.”
“There should have a buzzer to limit the bloviating, rambling, incoherent verbosity to a question that SHOULD have been answered in 5 minutes MAX!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘verbosity’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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common UA vocab. in US
Interesting, there is a traditional vocabulary of an Ukrainian, that differs from vocabulary of average American. It would be nice to explore it.
jackdaw, incongruous, cassock, vivid, magpie, humdrum, amongst, wonder, wandering, wheedling, wheedle, osseous and 368 more...
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A Refined Lexicon
ambivalence, ambivalent, equivocal, equivocation, equivocate, prevaricate, prevarication, quietude, quiescent, quiescence, vanquish, pluviosity and 137 more...
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quotato's Words
prospicience, appoggiatura, actually, thrum, nisus, univocal, eschatology, concupiscible, penury, psychedelic, vapid, braggadocio and 107 more...
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Personal Vocabulary List
All my favourite words that I come across!
veritable, incongruence, rigamorole, letcherous, revolting, repulsive, reputrid, rapatious, forays, guise, placate, paradigm and 1162 more...
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cloudjuice's Words
schadenfreude, sordid, promulgate, erratic, erroneous, amalgamate, sesquipedalian, incongruous, psychosis, etymology, simulacrum, serendipity and 988 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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elij's Words
diegesis, intrinsic, semantic, salience, nonchalant, infosthetics, ambiguous, altruism, cynical, abstruse, vatic, encomium and 137 more...
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Collage's Words
subtle, calamity, impale, qat, painterly, piebald, surly, nihilistic, repine, slake, larder, sepulchre and 349 more...
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sarahatlee's Words
pants, nekkid, schadenfreude, unseasonably, illicit, glaswegian, cripes, futz, drawers, scupper, coulrophobic, redacted and 254 more...
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likaluca's Words
recursive, genuflect, libidinous, emote, smote, importune, trill, chillax, overshare, shorn, needle, ego and 162 more...
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logicalbiscotti's omniglottery
i heart words.
lolligag, defenestrate, dammsuga, kakumei, in cahoots, spleen, hubris, epoch, anaphylaxis, lummox, tincture, schadenfreude and 156 more...
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mkawrexi's list1
random fun words
verbosity, miasma, malapropism, rugose, bambalachi, calipygian, zaftig, blimp
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Sent Com
words to be delt with in sc
blighted, confute, ostentatious, blissful, vulgarity, verbosity, vocalization, garish, tonality, insentient, reparative, restorative and 15 more...
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Abnegation
Level 2
abnegation, abstruse, acrid, affront, anachronism, august, cacophony, chagrin, clandestine, contumely, deprecate, desultory and 88 more...
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steveely's Words
mellifluous, kibosh, zaftig, evidently, ubiquitous, confluence, miscreant, exonerate, ostensible, phantasmagoria, homogenous, hegemony and 30 more...
Tweets
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derumi Some of the old text adventure games would have a setting for "maximum verbosity". Jul 23, 2009