Hypertext Webster Gateway: "verbiage"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Verbiage \Ver"bi*age\ (?; 48), n. [F. verbiage, from OF. verbe a
word. See {Verb}.]
The use of many words without necessity, or with little
sense; a superabundance of words; verbosity; wordiness.
Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking.
--W. Irving.
This barren verbiage current among men. --Tennyson.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
verbiage
n 1: overabundance of words
2: the manner in which something is expressed in words: "use
concise military verbiage"- G.S.Patton [syn: {wording}, {diction},
{phrasing}, {phraseology}, {choice of words}]
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