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Wordiness   Listen
noun
Wordiness  n.  The quality or state of being wordy, or abounding with words; verboseness.





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"Wordiness" Quotes from Famous Books



... only explanation ever offered for this exuberant wordiness is that if worshipers did not understand one term they would the other, and in some cases, in the Exhortation and elsewhere, one word is of Latin and the other of Saxon derivation.[1] But this is surely a very feeble excuse for bad composition. Of a very different kind is that beautiful ...
— On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) - A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature • John Ruskin


Words linked to "Wordiness" :   turgidity, verboseness, flatulence, turgidness, verbosity, long-windedness, concise


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