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circumlocutionnoun deliberate evasion in speechrather than answering the question directly, he resorted to circumlocution, which made her suspect that he was hiding something equivocation, shuffle, tergiversation quibblingambiguity, ambiguousness, equivocalness, murkiness, nebulousness, obscureness, obscurity, opacity candor, directness, forthrightness, frankness, openheartedness, openness, plainness, plumpness, straightforwardness the use of too many words to express an ideayour papers have to be five pages long, but that's five pages of substance, not circumlocution diffuseness, diffusion, garrulity, garrulousness, logorrhea, long-windedness, periphrasis, prolixity, redundancy, verbalism, verbiage, 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 ca. 1518 |