prolixity
Long-winded speech habit
Prolixity is excessive wordiness—using more words than necessary to make a point.
The quality of being prolix.
A speaker or writer given to prolixity stretches simple ideas into lengthy elaborations: The report's prolixity made it nearly unreadable.
The word carries mild criticism, suggesting tedium rather than depth.
Excessive use of language
- loquacityExcessive inclination to speak
- volubilityExcessive verbal output
- circumlocutionIndirect, wordy expression
- pleonasmRedundant expression
redundancy · tautology · diffuseness · verbiage · logorrhea · superfluity · windiness · effusiveness
Pompous, extravagant language
- bombastPretentious hollow language
- turgiditySwollen or inflated state
- floridityElaborate, showy expression
- magniloquenceBoastful, elevated language
pomposity · fustian · euphuism · affectation · ornateness · pretentiousness · inflation · extravagance
Quality of causing weariness
- wearisomenessQuality of causing fatigue
- tiresomenessQuality causing weariness
- monotonyTiresome lack of change
- interminabilityState of having no end
lengthiness · drawn-out · protraction · long-drawn · unending · dreariness · dullness
wordiness
Excessive use of language
- loquacityExcessive inclination to speak
- volubilityExcessive verbal output
- circumlocutionIndirect, wordy expression
pleonasm · redundancy · tautology · diffuseness · verbiage · logorrhea · superfluity · windiness · effusiveness · discursiveness
grandiloquence
Pompous, extravagant language
- bombastPretentious hollow language
- turgiditySwollen or inflated state
- floridityElaborate, showy expression
magniloquence · pomposity · fustian · euphuism · affectation · ornateness · pretentiousness · inflation · extravagance · elaboration
tediousness
Quality of causing weariness
- wearisomenessQuality of causing fatigue
- tiresomenessQuality causing weariness
- monotonyTiresome lack of change
interminability · lengthiness · drawn-out · protraction · long-drawn · unending · dreariness · dullness
- talkativechatty, verbose, wordy, mouthy, gossipy
- bombastbombast, grandiloquence, magniloquence, pomposity, fustian
- talkativenesstalkativeness, wordiness, loquacity, long-windedness, chattiness
- overcomplexityoverengineering, overthinking, convolution, intricacy, overdesign
- circumlocutioncircumlocution, indirection, indirectness, roundabout, roundaboutness
- blatherbabble, balderdash, baloney, blarney, blather
prolixitybrevity
Shortness of expression
conciseness · succinctness · terseness · concision · pithiness