Verbosity

Definitions

The excess use of words, especially using more than are needed for clarity or precision.

countable, rhetoric, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“With Christie's words about "all-talk-no-action" in mind⟳, notice⟳ that Obama and his two secretaries of state, Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, as well as his vice president, Joe Biden, were all senators, the last⟳ two serving for two or three decades, respectively. Not forgetting the ill-fated secretary of defense, Senator Chuck Hagel. Their capacity for talking so much and saying so little is astonishing. Their verbosity is unpalatable.”

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