verboseness
Using too many
Verboseness is the quality of using more words than necessary.
It's a less common variant of verbosity, carrying the same meaning: The report's verboseness made it tedious to read.
Both terms describe speech or writing that could be trimmed without losing meaning.
Tedious verbal excess
- wordinessExcessive use of language
- diffusenessExcessive, unfocused expression
- discursivenessTendency to wander topically
- windinessState of being blustery
rambling · expatiation · overelaboration · meandering · padding · lengthiness · drawn-out · protracted
Redundant expression
- tautologyRedundant or circular statement
- repetitionAct of redoing
- superfluityExcessive amount beyond necessity
- circumlocutionIndirect, wordy expression
redundant · repetitive · restatement · reiteration · belaboring · overstatement · padding · filler
Pompous, extravagant language
- bombastPretentious hollow language
- floridityElaborate, showy expression
- floridnessExcessive ornamental elaboration
- pomposityExaggerated sense of importance
sesquipedalianism · purple prose · rhetorical · overwrought · embellished · ostentatious · magniloquence · highfalutin
Inclined to speak much
- garrulousTediously long-winded
- loquaciousInclined to talk much
- chattyInclined to converse freely
- volubleInclined to talk freely
gabby · mouthy · prattling · jabbering · blathering · rambling · chatterbox · windbag
long-windedness
Tedious verbal excess
- wordinessExcessive use of language
- diffusenessExcessive, unfocused expression
- discursivenessTendency to wander topically
windiness · rambling · expatiation · overelaboration · meandering · padding · lengthiness · drawn-out · protracted · tedious
pleonasm
Redundant expression
- tautologyRedundant or circular statement
- repetitionAct of redoing
- superfluityExcessive amount beyond necessity
circumlocution · redundant · repetitive · restatement · reiteration · belaboring · overstatement · padding · filler · unnecessary
grandiloquence
Pompous, extravagant language
- bombastPretentious hollow language
- floridityElaborate, showy expression
- floridnessExcessive ornamental elaboration
pomposity · sesquipedalianism · purple prose · rhetorical · overwrought · embellished · ostentatious · magniloquence · highfalutin · pretentious
talkative
Inclined to speak much
- garrulousTediously long-winded
- loquaciousInclined to talk much
- chattyInclined to converse freely
voluble · gabby · mouthy · prattling · jabbering · blathering · rambling · chatterbox · windbag · blabby
verbosenessbrevity
Shortness of expression
terseness · conciseness · succinctness · briefness · concision
verbosenesspithiness
Terse, meaningful expression
crispness · incisiveness · pointedness · directness · precision