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verbosity

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verbosity
noun
the dialogue is a reasonable compromise between clarity and verbosity:
wordiness, verboseness, loquacity, garrulity, talkativeness, volubility, expansiveness, babbling, blathering, prattling, prating, jabbering, gushing;
long-windedness, lengthiness, protractedness, verbiage, prolixity, periphrasis, tautology, circumlocution, convolution, redundancy;
diffuseness, discursiveness, digressiveness;
informal the gift of the gab, big mouth, mouthiness, gassiness, gabbiness, windiness, blah-blah, gobbledygook;
British, informal wittering, waffling;
rare orotundity, logorrhoea, multiloquence, pleonasm, perissology.
antonyms brevity, taciturnity.
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