Hypertext Webster Gateway: "verboseness"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Verbose \Ver*bose"\, a. [L. verbosus, from verbum a word. See
{Verb}.]
Abounding in words; using or containing more words than are
necessary; tedious by a multiplicity of words; prolix; wordy;
as, a verbose speaker; a verbose argument.
Too verbose in their way of speaking. --Ayliffe.
-- {Ver*bose"ly}, adv. -- {Ver*bose"ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
verboseness
n : an expressive style that uses excessive words [syn: {verbosity}]
[ant: {terseness}]
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