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单词 verbosity
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Definition of verbosity in English:

verbosity

nounvəˈbɒsɪtivərˈbɑsədi
mass noun
  • The fact or quality of using more words than needed; wordiness.

    a critic with a reputation for verbosity
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I have never felt so attracted to pompous verbosity.
    • For all its verbosity, the task-force report never explains its central conceit: ‘equity in hiring.’
    • Keep it curt, Kenny, and stop soft-soaping us with your loquacity and verbosity.
    • Yet woe to those who are silent about you because, though loquacious with verbosity, they have nothing to say.
    • Another common addiction is to replace ‘at all’ by the verbosity of ‘in any way, shape or form’.
    Synonyms
    wordiness, verboseness, loquacity, garrulity, talkativeness, volubility, expansiveness, babbling, blathering, waffling, prattling, prating, jabbering, gushing
    long-windedness, lengthiness, protractedness, verbiage, prolixity, periphrasis, tautology, circumlocution, convolution, redundancy
    diffuseness, discursiveness, digressiveness
    informal the gift of the gab, big mouth, mouthiness, gassiness, gabbiness, windiness, blah-blah, gobbledegook
    British informal wittering
    rare orotundity, logorrhoea, multiloquence, pleonasm, perissology

Rhymes

anfractuosity, animosity, atrocity, bellicosity, curiosity, fabulosity, ferocity, generosity, grandiosity, impecuniosity, impetuosity, jocosity, luminosity, monstrosity, nebulosity, pomposity, ponderosity, porosity, preciosity, precocity, reciprocity, religiosity, scrupulosity, sinuosity, sumptuosity, velocity, virtuosity, viscosity
 
 

Definition of verbosity in US English:

verbosity

nounvərˈbäsədēvərˈbɑsədi
  • The quality of using more words than needed; wordiness.

    a critic with a reputation for verbosity
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Keep it curt, Kenny, and stop soft-soaping us with your loquacity and verbosity.
    • I have never felt so attracted to pompous verbosity.
    • Another common addiction is to replace ‘at all’ by the verbosity of ‘in any way, shape or form’.
    • For all its verbosity, the task-force report never explains its central conceit: ‘equity in hiring.’
    • Yet woe to those who are silent about you because, though loquacious with verbosity, they have nothing to say.
    Synonyms
    wordiness, verboseness, loquacity, garrulity, talkativeness, volubility, expansiveness, babbling, blathering, waffling, prattling, prating, jabbering, gushing
 
 
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