wordiness

noun

Definition of wordinessnext
as in repetition
the use of too many words to express an idea wordiness will only detract from what you are trying to say

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  1. repetition
  2. verbosity
  3. wordage
  4. logorrhea
  5. diffusion
  6. circumlocution
Noun
  • Relationships need repetition and structure to grow.
    Serena Dai, The Atlantic, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Rather, these freelancing skills are developed through repetition and practice, and through learning from and watching the habits of other freelancers who've made it to the pinnacles of their careers.
    Rachel Wells, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2025
Definition of repetition
Noun
  • When that’s chucked in a blender with his own penchant for spiky-savvy verbosity, the results fizz and pop.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024
  • But many French are deeply sick of hearing his volcanic verbosity.
    Lee Hockstader, Washington Post, 1 July 2024
Definition of verbosity
Noun
  • On their website, the three yellow stripes are prominently featured on the website under the Black Lives Matter wordage, and used on their social media accounts.
    Amritpal Kaur Sandhu-Longoria, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Reached by the Union-Tribune Wednesday morning, Lindsey differed with McGillis’ wordage.
    Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2023
Definition of wordage
Noun
  • Just as the limitless space of web text tempts writers to indulge their logorrhea, the blinking, ever-transmuting, cartoonish interface of web browsers prevents would-be readers from paying attention to anything for longer than about 7 seconds.
    Barton Swaim, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Nor has Musk kept his Twitter logorrhea in check in other respects.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2022
Definition of logorrhea
Noun
  • The essential oil’s diffusion is extremely powerful, a quality that many consumers are now seeking in perfume, a consequence of TikTok’s #beastmode fragrance trend.
    Sable Yong, Allure, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The researchers use their device to demonstrate a number of standard tasks for a neural network, such as classifying the shape of optical waveforms, predicting the next value in a time series given the previous values and generating images by diffusion.
    The Physics arXiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 16 Jan. 2025
Definition of diffusion
Noun
  • Here, instead, she’s swayed by a dead Diana softly squeezing her hand and kindly hinting — the dead Diana is an ace at tactful circumlocution — that now is the time to show a mourning nation some emotion.
    Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2023
  • By condensing Balzac’s opus to a few paragraphs, Barthelme was having a laugh not just at his predecessor’s genteel circumlocution—his tendency to describe buildings and manufacturing procedures and family trees in lavish detail—but also at the conventions of novelistic mimesis itself.
    Giles Harvey, The New York Review of Books, 23 Apr. 2020
Definition of circumlocution
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