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单词 verbosity
释义
verbosity
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n

Verbosity is a quality possessed by people who talk a lot while saying very little at all.
The root verb — also seen in verbal — is a clue this word has to do with talking. Specifically, verbosity is the quality of gabbing and blabbing at length. That might sound like a talent, and it sort of is, but usually the words are a bit empty. You could be accused of verbosity if you like to exaggerate or wax poetic. Most of the time, verbosity is empty talk — a whole lot of nothing dressed up in too many words.
WORD FAMILY
verbosity: verbosities+/verbose: verbosely, verboseness, verbosity
USAGE EXAMPLES
Fortunately, though, the final veto on verbosity is held by readers, who can exercise it simply by stopping in midsentence.
Washington Times(Oct 14, 2016)
Lawson has shiny tussled hair and a quick verbosity, and he tends to offer thoughts with what might be called the opposite of circumspection.
Los Angeles Times(Aug 12, 2016)
As for his verbosity before the footbridge kiss, it returned three years later when he proposed.
New York Times(Aug 04, 2016)
n an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words
Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper
verboseness
terseness
a neatly short and concise expressive style
verbalism, verbiage
overabundance of words
long-windedness, prolixity, prolixness, windiness, wordiness
boring verbosity
ambage, circumlocution, periphrasis
a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things
repetitiousness, repetitiveness
verboseness resulting from excessive repetitions
pleonasm
using more words than necessary
flatulence, turgidity, turgidness
pompously embellished language
redundancy
repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission
tautology
useless repetition
expressive style, style
a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period
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