noun
the quality or state or an instance of being wordy
his two-hour lecture was the epitome of verbosity
flowery verbosities weakened his speech
Synonyms: prolixity, prolixness, verbalism, verboseness, windiness, wordiness; compare verbiage 1
Related Word: bombast, grandiloquence; long-windedness; redundancy
Contrasted words: conciseness, preciseness, succinctness, terseness; leanness, tightness