n. Function: noun
1 a stylistic fault involving excessive wordiness that obscures or unduly complicates expression FF1C; the florid verbiage of the dissertation FF1E;
Synonyms: circumambages, circumbendibus, circumlocution, periphrase, periphrasis, pleonasm, redundancy, roundabout, tautology, verbality; compare VERBOSITY
Related Words: nimiety; repetition; expansiveness, floridity, floridness; longiloquence, long-windedness
Idioms: purple prose
Contrasted Words: breviloquence, brevity, briefness, terseness
Antonyms: concision
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Synonyms: WORDING , diction, parlance, phrase, phraseology, phrasing, verbalism, wordage