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verbiagenoun the use of too many words to express an ideateachers loathe the verbiage that students resort to in order to pad a paper circumlocution, diffuseness, diffusion, garrulity, garrulousness, logorrhea, long-windedness, periphrasis, prolixity, redundancy, verbalism, verboseness, verbosity, windiness, wordage, wordiness circuitousness, circularity, digressivenesspleonasm, tautologyreiteration, repetition, repetitiousness, repetitivenessembellishment, embroidering, exaggeration, hyperbole, overstatement brevity, briefness, compactness, conciseness, concision, crispness, pithiness, succinctness, terseness language that is impressive-sounding but not meaningful or sincerethe pretentious verbiage that one finds in the reviews of self-important art critics bombast, fustian, gas, grandiloquence, hot air, oratory, rhetoric, wind claptrap, drivel, gibberish, hogwash, humbug, jabberwocky, jazz, moonshine, nonsenseaffectedness, floweriness, grandiosity, loftiness, pomposity, pretension, pretentiousnessgarrulity, garrulousness, verboseness, verbosity, windiness, wordiness the way in which something is put into wordsas per the standard verbiage of military reports, the assault was launched at "0700 hours" diction, language, phraseology, phrasing, wording expression, formulation, locutionenunciation, phrase, speech, style, utterance, voice ca. 1721 |