verbosity

/vərˈbɑsɪti/

Other forms: verbosities

Verbosity is a quality possessed by people who talk a lot while saying very little at all.

The root verb — also seen in verbal — is a clue this word has to do with talking. Specifically, verbosity is the quality of gabbing and blabbing at length. That might sound like a talent, and it sort of is, but usually the words are a bit empty. You could be accused of verbosity if you like to exaggerate or wax poetic. Most of the time, verbosity is empty talk — a whole lot of nothing dressed up in too many words.

Definitions of verbosity

1. noun

   an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words
   synonyms: verboseness

   types:

   verbalism, verbiage

   overabundance of words

   long-windedness, prolixity, prolixness, windiness, wordiness

   boring verbosity

   ambage, circumlocution, periphrasis

   a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things

   repetitiousness, repetitiveness

   verboseness resulting from excessive repetitions

   pleonasm

   using more words than necessary

   flatulence, turgidity, turgidness

   pompously embellished language

   redundancy

   repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission

   tautology

   useless repetition

   type of:

   expressive style, style

   a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period