Meaning of wordage | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Words collectively, considered in a mass sense.
   countable, uncountable
2. The excessive use of words.
   countable, uncountable
3. The number of words used in a text: synonym of word count.
   countable, uncountable
4. The choice of words used: word choice.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“Near-synonym: language”

“But the plates are good, and, in reality, sufficient without all the wordage.”

“Here, I think⟳, we must class the portmanteau-wordage of James Joyce, in which the use⟳ of verbal and syllabic association is carried so far that its power of unconscious persuasion is lost and the reader’s response is diverted by a conscious ecstasy of enigma-hunting, like⟳ a pig rooting for truffles.”

“The official transcript totaled 2,045,000 words—more than twice the wordage of the Bible.”

“A work⟳ of elucidation couched in a lazily dense style; a biography seemingly concerned with externals but in fact spun from inside the biographer like⟳ a spider’s thread; a critical study⟳ which exceeds in wordage all the major works of its subject put⟳ together…”

“Near-synonyms: phrasing; terminology; phraseology”

“"With the wordage in the contract, we think⟳ we have⟳ a good case."”

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