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

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

Trump answered questions with such verbosity at the April deposition — veering from evasiveness to bluster to filibuster at times — that one lawyer worried his seven hours of sworn testimony could go until midnight.

From Washington Times

It's that incredible thing that I'm sure is John Williams, where it's like, "OK, how do we communicate? We have to communicate on a musical level if we don't understand the verbosity of another species."

From Salon