verbosity

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

Verbosity \Ver*bos"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Verbosities}. [L. verbositas:
   cf. F. verbosit['e].]
   The quality or state of being verbose; the use of more words
   than are necessary; prolixity; wordiness; verbiage.
   [1913 Webster]

         The worst fault, by far, is the extreme diffuseness and
         verbosity of his style.                  --Jeffrey.
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71 Moby Thesaurus words for "verbosity":
      bedizenment, big mouth, bombast, candor, cloud of words,
      communicativeness, conversableness, duplication,
      duplication of effort, effusion, effusiveness, embellishment,
      expletive, extravagance, fat, featherbedding, filling,
      flow of words, flowing tongue, fluency, fluent tongue,
      flux de bouche, flux de paroles, flux of words, frankness, frill,
      frills, frippery, garrulity, garrulousness, gassiness, gift of gab,
      gingerbread, glibness, grandiloquence, gregariousness, gush,
      gushiness, logorrhea, long-windedness, longiloquence, loose tongue,
      loquaciousness, loquacity, luxury, needlessness, openness,
      ornamentation, overadornment, overlap, padding, payroll padding,
      pleonasm, prolixity, redundance, redundancy, slush, sociability,
      spate of words, superfluity, superfluousness, talkativeness,
      tautology, unnecessariness, verbalism, verbality, verbiage,
      verboseness, volubility, windiness, wordiness