wordage
Americannoun
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words collectively.
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quantity or amount of words.
The wordage of the document exceeds a million.
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verbiage; wordiness.
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choice of words; wording.
His wordage betrayed his lack of knowledge on the subject.
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Etymology
Origin of wordage
Example Sentences
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The music, as Spiegelman notes, has to be tuned into, tracked among the acrobatics of wordage, the high-wire leaps of thought.
From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2023
It might be five pages but it’s not nearly as much wordage and content than it used to be.
From Slate • Feb. 21, 2018
And she didn’t scrimp on the wordage, which some love to hate, offering “Chillax,” ”Gay” and “Ahoy.”
From Washington Times • Sep. 11, 2015
A review of my Edinburgh fringe show in 2009 used half of its wordage discussing the audience's debate in the queue beforehand about whether or not I was really gay, or just bisexual.
From The Guardian • Aug. 3, 2011
Composition is too expensive to permit publication of a book with unnecessary wordage, so I hope we can avoid as much as possible the duplication of material which appeared in recent reports.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Forty-Second Annual Meeting Urbana, Illinois, August 28, 29 and 30, 1951 by Northern Nut Growers Association
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