verbosity

[ver-bos-i-tee]

noun

1. the state or quality of being verbose; superfluity of words; wordiness.

   His speeches were always marred by verbosity.

   Synonyms: turgidity, redundancy, prolixity
   Antonyms: pithiness, terseness

Other Word Forms

• nonverbosity noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of verbosity¹

From the Late Latin word verbōsitās, dating back to 1535–45. See verbose, -ity

Example Sentences

Sight unseen, this will be a feast of Washington’s verbosity, spinning a situation until it best suits him — and then maybe going a touch too far to where it doesn’t.

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Its sportscasters are more judicious with their verbosity this time around too.

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Russians are used to his history lessons, she went on, but American viewers “must be going nuts with all this historical verbosity.”

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The differences, of course, are my unimpeachable taste and my extreme verbosity, neither of which I make any apology for.

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Trump answered questions with such verbosity at the April deposition — veering from evasiveness to bluster to filibuster at times — that one lawyer worried his seven hours of sworn testimony could go until midnight.

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