verbosity
Noun
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An expressive style that uses excessive or empty words (synset 107103943)
is a type of: expressive style, style - a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or periodsubtypes:
- verbalism, verbiage - overabundance of words
- long-windedness, prolixity, prolixness, windiness, wordiness - boring verbosity
- ambage, circumlocution, periphrasis - a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things
- repetitiousness, repetitiveness - verboseness resulting from excessive repetitions
- pleonasm - using more words than necessary
same as: verboseness
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