verbiage

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
verbiage
    n 1: overabundance of words [syn: {verbiage}, {verbalism}]
    2: the manner in which something is expressed in words; "use
       concise military verbiage"- G.S.Patton [syn: {wording},
       {diction}, {phrasing}, {phraseology}, {choice of words},
       {verbiage}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Verbiage \Ver"bi*age\ (?; 48), n. [F. verbiage, from OF. verbe a
   word. See {Verb}.]
   The use of many words without necessity, or with little
   sense; a superabundance of words; verbosity; wordiness.
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         Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking.
                                                  --W. Irving.
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         This barren verbiage current among men.  --Tennyson.
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from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
verbiage
 n.

   When the context involves a software or hardware system, this refers
   to {documentation}. This term borrows the connotations of mainstream
   `verbiage' to suggest that the documentation is of marginal utility
   and that the motives behind its production have little to do with the
   ostensible subject.
from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
verbiage

   When the context involves a software or hardware system, this
   refers to {documentation}.  This term borrows the connotations
   of mainstream "verbiage" to suggest that the documentation is
   of marginal utility and that the motives behind its production
   have little to do with the ostensible subject.

   [{Jargon File}]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
55 Moby Thesaurus words for "verbiage":
      choice of words, circumambages, circumbendibus, circumlocution,
      cloud of words, composition, dialect, diction, expansiveness,
      expression, floridity, floridness, flow of words, flux of words,
      formulation, grammar, idiom, language, lexicon, lexis, locution,
      logorrhea, long-windedness, longiloquence, nimiety, parlance,
      periphrase, periphrasis, phrase, phraseology, phrasing, pleonasm,
      prolixity, redundancy, repetition, rhetoric, roundabout, speech,
      stock of words, talk, talkativeness, tautology, thesaurus, usage,
      use of words, usus loquendi, verbalism, verbality, verbosity,
      vocabulary, wordage, wordhoard, wordiness, wording, words
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