verbosity
Using too many
Verbosity is the use of more words than necessary.
It's the quality of being long-winded, whether in speech or writing: The report's verbosity made it nearly unreadable.
The adjective verbose describes someone prone to this tendency: a verbose lecturer who could stretch ten minutes of content into an hour.
Tedious verbal excess
- wordinessExcessive use of language
- redundancyNeedless duplication
- pleonasmRedundant expression
- circumlocutionIndirect, wordy expression
tautology · diffuseness · logorrhea · windiness · padding · superfluity · repetition · bloviation
Inclined to speak much
- garrulousTediously long-winded
- volubleInclined to talk freely
- chattyInclined to converse freely
- gabbyInclined to chatter
effusive · conversational · blabby · gossipy · jabbering · prattling · chattering · nattering
Pretentious hollow language
- pomposityExaggerated sense of importance
- magniloquenceBoastful, elevated language
- turgiditySwollen or inflated state
- floridnessExcessive ornamental elaboration
rhetoric · oratory · declamation · pretentiousness · affectation · pedantry · ostentation · grandiosity
long-windedness
Tedious verbal excess
- wordinessExcessive use of language
- redundancyNeedless duplication
- pleonasmRedundant expression
circumlocution · tautology · diffuseness · logorrhea · windiness · padding · superfluity · repetition · bloviation · prolixness
talkative
Inclined to speak much
gabby · effusive · conversational · blabby · gossipy · jabbering · prattling · chattering · nattering · yakking
bombast
Pretentious hollow language
- pomposityExaggerated sense of importance
- magniloquenceBoastful, elevated language
- turgiditySwollen or inflated state
floridness · rhetoric · oratory · declamation · pretentiousness · affectation · pedantry · ostentation · grandiosity · sonorousness
drivel
Senseless, silly talk
twaddle · balderdash · claptrap · blather · piffle · hogwash · blatherskite · poppycock · rubbish · waffle
- blatherbabble, balderdash, baloney, blarney, blather
- speech habitsmumbling, stuttering, stammering, rambling, interrupting
- verbal qualitieseloquence, fluency, articulate, clarity, coherence
- literary devicesmetaphor, simile, hyperbole, personification, alliteration
- rhetoricrhetoric, persuasion, oratory, argumentation, debate
- bombastbombast, grandiloquence, magniloquence, pomposity, fustian
verbositybrevity
Shortness of expression
conciseness · terseness · succinctness · concision · briefness
verbositypithiness
Terse, meaningful expression
crispness · precision · directness · incisiveness · tightness
verb, proverb, verbal, adverb, verbose, verbalize, verbiage, verbalized, verbalizing