verboseness

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

verboseness
    n 1: an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words
         [syn: {verboseness}, {verbosity}] [ant: {terseness}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Verbose \Ver*bose"\, a. [L. verbosus, from verbum a word. See
   {Verb}.]
   Abounding in words; using or containing more words than are
   necessary; tedious by a multiplicity of words; prolix; wordy;
   as, a verbose speaker; a verbose argument.
   [1913 Webster]

         Too verbose in their way of speaking.    --Ayliffe.
   [1913 Webster] -- {Ver*bose"ly}, adv. -- {Ver*bose"ness}, n.
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