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The quality or state of being verbose; the use of more words than are necessary; prolixity; wordiness; verbiage.

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  1. n. The quality or state of being verbose; the use of more words than are necessary; prolixity; wordiness; verbiage.
  2. n. an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words
  3. The quality or state of being verbose; the use of more words than are necessary; prolixity; wordiness; verbiage. The worst fault, by far, is the extreme diffuseness and verbosity of his style. Jeffrey.
  4. The quality or state of being verbose; the use of more wordsthan are necessary; prolixity; wordiness; verbiage.The worst fault, by far, is the extreme diffuseness and verbosity ofhis style. Jeffrey.
  5. n:100 n an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words