Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being prolix; extension; length.
  • noun Lengthiness; minute and superfluous detail; tediousness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or state of being prolix; great length; minute detail.

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  • noun long-windedness, an excess of words

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun boring verbosity

Etymologies

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From Latin prōlixus ("long, extended"); from prolix +‎ -ity

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  • "'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

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