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All circumambages synonyms

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noun circumambages

  • indirect speech — Indirect speech is speech which tells you what someone said, but does not use the person's actual words: for example, 'They said you didn't like it', 'I asked him what his plans were', and 'Citizens complained about the smoke'.
  • diffuseness — to pour out and spread, as a fluid.
  • discursiveness — passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
  • indirectness — not in a direct course or path; deviating from a straight line; roundabout: an indirect course in sailing.
  • periphrasis — the use of an unnecessarily long or roundabout form of expression; circumlocution.
  • pleonasm — the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; redundancy.
  • prolixity — extended to great, unnecessary, or tedious length; long and wordy.
  • roundabout — circuitous or indirect, as a road, journey, method, statement or person.
  • tautology — needless repetition of an idea, especially in words other than those of the immediate context, without imparting additional force or clearness, as in “widow woman.”.
  • verbiage — overabundance or superfluity of words, as in writing or speech; wordiness; verbosity.
  • wordiness — characterized by or given to the use of many, or too many, words; verbose: She grew impatient at his wordy reply.
  • gassy — full of or containing gas.
  • periphrase — the use of an unnecessarily long or roundabout form of expression; circumlocution.
  • verbality — wordiness; verbal diffuseness: a speech full of tedious verbality.
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