noun
1.
a stylistic fault involving excessive wordiness that obscures or unduly complicates expression
the florid verbiage of the dissertation
Synonyms: circumambages, circumbendibus, circumlocution, periphrase, periphrasis, pleonasm, redundancy, roundabout, tautology, verbality; compare verbosity
Related Word: nimiety; repetition; expansiveness, floridity, floridness; longiloquence, long-windedness
Idioms: purple prose
Contrasted words: breviloquence, brevity, briefness, terseness
Antonyms: concision
2.
Synonyms: wording , diction, parlance, phrase, phraseology, phrasing, verbalism, wordage