All officialese synonyms
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O o noun officialese
- circumlocution — A circumlocution is a way of saying or writing something using more words than are necessary instead of being clear and direct.
- diffuseness — to pour out and spread, as a fluid.
- diffusion — act of diffusing; state of being diffused.
- fecundity — the quality of being fecund; capacity, especially in female animals, of producing young in great numbers.
- garrulity — the quality of being garrulous; talkativeness; loquacity.
- logorrhea — pathologically incoherent, repetitious speech.
- loquaciousness — talking or tending to talk much or freely; talkative; chattering; babbling; garrulous: a loquacious dinner guest.
- loquacity — the state of being loquacious; talkativeness; garrulity.
- 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.
- redundancy — the state of being redundant.
- 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.
- verbosity — the state or quality of being verbose; superfluity of words; wordiness: His speeches were always marred by verbosity.
- catalogic — of the nature of or relating to a catalogue
- macrology — Long and tedious talk without much substance; superfluity of words.
- verbality — wordiness; verbal diffuseness: a speech full of tedious verbality.
- verbigeration — the condition or instances of repeating the same word or sentence against one's will as a symptom of a psychiatric disorder