walls of text
Exhausting to read
A wall of text is a large block of writing with few or no paragraph breaks, making it visually dense and difficult to read.
The term is almost always critical, suggesting the writer failed to organize their thoughts or consider the reader's experience.
Online, walls of text often appear in comments, emails, or messages where someone has strong feelings but little editing instinct: I asked a simple question and got a wall of text in response.
- blockyResembling stacked cubes
- paragraphingDividing text into blocks
- overwhelmingIntensely excessive in force
- monolithicMassive and undifferentiated
- spacingInterval arrangement between objects
dense · uninterrupted · overload · cluttered · disorganization · info dump · tedious · forums · unformatted · sprawling · impenetrable · essays · intimidating · exhausting · inaccessibility · frustrating · emails · inefficiency
walls of textbullet points
Marked summary elements
bulleted list · numbered list · white space · visual hierarchy · paragraph breaks
walls of textone-liner
Brief standalone joke
blurb · snippet · concise writing · short and sweet · pithy remark
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