verbosity

[ ver-bos-i-tee ]

noun

1. the state or quality of being verbose; superfluity of words; wordiness:

   His speeches were always marred by verbosity.

   Synonyms: turgidity, prolixity, redundancy

   Antonyms: pithiness, terseness

Other Words From

• nonver·bosi·ty noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of verbosity¹

From the Late Latin word verbōsitās, dating back to 1535–45. See verbose, -ity

Example Sentences

Its sportscasters are more judicious with their verbosity this time around too.

From Salon

Perhaps the most consistent features of originalist decisions are their density and verbosity: To determine whether a purported right is sufficiently “deeply rooted” in “history and tradition,” justices and judges conduct meandering surveys of English common law, quote the dusty treatises of mononymic philosophers, and parse the hastily scribbled notes of founding-era legislators who wrote the letter S, for some godforsaken reason, as F. The majority opinion in Dobbs v.

From Slate

Verbosity became more of a problem with the advent of television coverage in the 1950s.

From Los Angeles Times

Russians are used to his history lessons, she went on, but American viewers “must be going nuts with all this historical verbosity.”

From New York Times

The differences, of course, are my unimpeachable taste and my extreme verbosity, neither of which I make any apology for.

From Los Angeles Times