Verbosity

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The quality or state of being verbose; the use of more words than are necessary; prolixity; wordiness; verbiage. The worst fault, by far, is the extreme diffuseness and verbosity of his style. - Jeffrey.

Noun

1.

verbosity - an expressive style that uses excessive words Synonyms: verboseness

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