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The quality or state of being prolix; great length; minute detail; as, prolixity in discourses and writings.

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  1. n. The quality or state of being prolix; great length; minute detail; as, prolixity in discourses and writings.
  2. n. boring verbosity
  3. The quality or state of being prolix; great length; minute detail; as, prolixity in discourses and writings. "For fulsomeness of his prolixitee." Chaucer. Idly running on with vain prolixity. Drayton.
  4. The quality or state of being prolix; great length; minutedetail; as, prolixity in discourses and writings. "For fulsomeness ofhis prolixitee." Chaucer.Idly running on with vain prolixity. Drayton.