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All prolixity synonyms

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noun prolixity

  • oratory — skill or eloquence in public speaking: The evangelist moved thousands to repentance with his oratory.
  • gassiness — The state or property of being gassy.
  • garrulity — the quality of being garrulous; talkativeness; loquacity.
  • chattiness — characterized by friendly and informal talk or writing, often about minor or personal matters: a long, chatty letter from my sister.
  • wordage — words collectively.
  • logorrhea — pathologically incoherent, repetitious speech.
  • macrology — Long and tedious talk without much substance; superfluity of words.
  • expansiveness — The state of being expansive.
  • circumlocution — A circumlocution is a way of saying or writing something using more words than are necessary instead of being clear and direct.
  • indirectness — not in a direct course or path; deviating from a straight line; roundabout: an indirect course in sailing.
  • wordiness — characterized by or given to the use of many, or too many, words; verbose: She grew impatient at his wordy reply.
  • 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.
  • officialese — a style of language used in some official statements, often criticized for its use of polysyllabic jargon and obscure, pretentiously wordy phrasing.
  • circumambages — round-about methods
  • diffuseness — to pour out and spread, as a fluid.
  • discursiveness — passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
  • garrulousness — Garrulity.
  • windiness — The state of being windy (in all meanings).
  • glibness — readily fluent, often thoughtlessly, superficially, or insincerely so: a glib talker; glib answers.
  • catalogic — of the nature of or relating to a catalogue
  • floridity — reddish; ruddy; rosy: a florid complexion.
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