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Synonyms for verbosity


Grammar : Noun
Spell : ver-bos-i-tee
Phonetic Transcription : vərˈbɒs ɪ ti



Définition of verbosity

Origin :
  • 1540s, from French verbosité (16c.) or directly from Latin verbositas, from verbosus (see verbose).
  • noun wordiness
Example sentences :
  • Yet his fluency never ran off into the fatal channels of verbosity.
  • Extract from : « Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) » by John Morley
  • The last chapter, however, surpasses all the others in verbosity.
  • Extract from : « Catholic World, Vol. XIII, April to September, 1871 » by Various
  • He must learn to exchange his verbosity for action in the great battle of life.
  • Extract from : « The Hindoos as they Are » by Shib Chunder Bose
  • He draweth out the thread of his verbosity, finer than the staple of his argument.
  • Extract from : « The Sword of Damocles » by Anna Katharine Green
  • But those Irish Shylocks must have their pound of verbosity.
  • Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, June 28 1890 » by Various
  • But “he spins the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.”
  • Extract from : « Hazlitt on English Literature » by Jacob Zeitlin
  • Hence the verbosity of law documents in which stops are not used.
  • Extract from : « The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto » by George Cox
  • They exchanged excuses and caresses with oriental demonstrativeness and verbosity.
  • Extract from : « Salammbo » by Gustave Flaubert
  • It is exempt from verbosity; it considers only good results.
  • Extract from : « Ten Great Religions » by James Freeman Clarke
  • He draweth the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
  • Extract from : « Familiar Quotations » by Various

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