Synonyms for verbosity

Grammar : Noun

Spell : ver-bos-i-tee

Phonetic Transcription : vərˈbɒs ɪ ti

Définition of verbosity

Origin : 1540s, from French verbosité (16c.) or directly from Latin verbositas, from verbosus (see verbose).

noun wordiness

Example sentences :

Yet his fluency never ran off into the fatal channels of verbosity.
Extract from : « Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) » by John Morley

The last chapter, however, surpasses all the others in verbosity.
Extract from : « Catholic World, Vol. XIII, April to September, 1871 » by Various

He must learn to exchange his verbosity for action in the great battle of life.
Extract from : « The Hindoos as they Are » by Shib Chunder Bose

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity, finer than the staple of his argument.
Extract from : « The Sword of Damocles » by Anna Katharine Green

But those Irish Shylocks must have their pound of verbosity.
Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, June 28 1890 » by Various

But “he spins the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.”
Extract from : « Hazlitt on English Literature » by Jacob Zeitlin

Hence the verbosity of law documents in which stops are not used.
Extract from : « The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto » by George Cox

They exchanged excuses and caresses with oriental demonstrativeness and verbosity.
Extract from : « Salammbo » by Gustave Flaubert

It is exempt from verbosity; it considers only good results.
Extract from : « Ten Great Religions » by James Freeman Clarke

He draweth the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Extract from : « Familiar Quotations » by Various

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