wordiness
Using too many
Wordiness is the use of more words than necessary to express an idea.
It weighs down writing with redundancy, filler, and circumlocution: The wordiness of legal documents makes them hard to parse.
The adjective is wordy.
Unnecessary word excess
- long-windednessTedious verbal excess
- circumlocutionIndirect, wordy expression
- pleonasmRedundant expression
- tautologyRedundant or circular statement
garrulity · loquacity · logorrhea · diffuseness · rambling · discursiveness · windiness · volubility
Act of redoing
- superfluityExcessive amount beyond necessity
- redundancyNeedless duplication
- excessSurplus beyond need
- surplusAmount exceeding requirement
overabundance · repetitiveness · reiteration · duplication · padding · filler · bloat · overkill
Extended beyond normal duration
- protractedExtended beyond normal duration
- interminableWithout apparent conclusion
- tediousBoring through length
- laboriousRequiring considerable effort
wearisome · exhausting · tiresome · monotonous · plodding · droning · meandering · ponderous
verbosity
Unnecessary word excess
- long-windednessTedious verbal excess
- circumlocutionIndirect, wordy expression
- pleonasmRedundant expression
tautology · garrulity · loquacity · logorrhea · diffuseness · rambling · discursiveness · windiness · volubility · expansiveness
repetition
Act of redoing
- superfluityExcessive amount beyond necessity
- redundancyNeedless duplication
- excessSurplus beyond need
surplus · overabundance · repetitiveness · reiteration · duplication · padding · filler · bloat · overkill · deadwood
drawn-out
Extended beyond normal duration
- protractedExtended beyond normal duration
- interminableWithout apparent conclusion
- tediousBoring through length
laborious · wearisome · exhausting · tiresome · monotonous · plodding · droning · meandering · ponderous · dense
- writing flawstypos, spelling errors, plot hole, plot holes, cliche
- blatherbabble, balderdash, baloney, blarney, blather
- talkativechatty, verbose, mouthy, gossipy, rambling
- rhetoricrhetoric, persuasion, oratory, argumentation, debate
- bombastbombast, grandiloquence, magniloquence, pomposity, fustian
- prose qualitiesclarity, eloquence, coherence, conciseness, flow
wordinessbrevity
Shortness of expression
conciseness · terseness · succinctness · concision · pithiness
wordinesssilence
Total lack of sound
taciturnity · muteness · reticence · quietness · speechlessness