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'.
discursiveness — passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
euphemism — A mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.
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.
