long-windedness
Speaking without stopping
Long-windedness is the tendency to use far more words than necessary, especially in speech.
A long-winded speaker rambles, digresses, or belabors points that could be made briefly: The meeting dragged on due to the CEO's long-windedness.
The quality suggests not just length but tedium—failing to recognize when listeners have grasped the point.
Unnecessary word excess
- wordinessExcessive use of language
- circumlocutionIndirect, wordy expression
- pleonasmRedundant expression
- tautologyRedundant or circular statement
redundancy · diffuseness · logorrhea · garrulity · loquacity · volubility · grandiloquence · bombast
Veering off topic
- meanderingFollowing a winding course
- wafflingEvasive, indecisive speech
- tangentialityTendency to stray from topic
- discursivenessTendency to wander topically
maundering · circuitousness · wandering · straying · beating around the bush · unfocused · incoherence · scattered
Failing to engage interest
- tiresomeCausing boredom or annoyance
- wearisomeCausing fatigue through monotony
- monotonousUnchangingly dull
- dullLacking edge or interest
dreary · ponderous · plodding · leaden · droning · soporific · interminable · exhausting
verbosity
Unnecessary word excess
- wordinessExcessive use of language
- circumlocutionIndirect, wordy expression
- pleonasmRedundant expression
tautology · redundancy · diffuseness · logorrhea · garrulity · loquacity · volubility · grandiloquence · bombast · pomposity
digression
Veering off topic
- meanderingFollowing a winding course
- wafflingEvasive, indecisive speech
- tangentialityTendency to stray from topic
discursiveness · maundering · circuitousness · wandering · straying · beating around the bush · unfocused · incoherence · scattered · disjointed
boring
Failing to engage interest
- tiresomeCausing boredom or annoyance
- wearisomeCausing fatigue through monotony
- monotonousUnchangingly dull
dull · dreary · ponderous · plodding · leaden · droning · soporific · interminable · exhausting · unending
- bombastbombast, grandiloquence, magniloquence, pomposity, fustian
- Overcommunicationoversharing, rambling, babbling, repeating, flooding
- talkativenesstalkativeness, verbosity, wordiness, garrulity, loquacity
- circumlocutioncircumlocution, indirection, indirectness, roundabout, roundaboutness
long-windednessbrevity
Shortness of expression
conciseness · succinctness · concision · terseness · pithiness
long-windednessdirectness
Quality of being straightforward
bluntness · straightforwardness · getting to the point · plainspokenness · forthrightness
long, winding, winded, unwinding, windswept, long-winded, downwind, rewinding, tailwind