verbosity
Use Verbosity in a sentence
ɪ noun
the state or quality of being verbose; superfluity of words; wordiness: His speeches were always marred by verbosity.
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verbose (vɜːˈbəʊs) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| using or containing an excess of words, so as to be pedantic or boring; prolix | |
| [C17: from Latin verbōsus from verbum word] | |
| ver'bosely | |
| —adv | |
| verbosity | |
| —n | |
| ver'boseness | |
| —n | |
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Verbosity
is always a great word to know.
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| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
Example sentences
At the same time, he has had a tendency toward verbosity.
Long describes the hardships of growing up hippie with whirlwind verbosity and occasional virtuosity.
But, sometimes writers and readers don't mind a little verbosity.
They know how to deliver the kind of stilted, world-weary verbosity that somehow quickens the pulses of this genre's readers.
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