verbiage
noun
1 verbiage
Overabundance of words.
synonym: verbalism.
Roget 517:
meaninglessness,
unmeaningness
etc.
adj.†;
scrabble.
empty sound,
dead letter,
vox et praeterea nihil [Lat.];
a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing;"
sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal. "
nonsense,
utter nonsense,
gibberish;
jargon,
jabber,
mere words,
hocus-pocus,
fustian,
rant,
bombast,
balderdash,
palaver,
flummery,
verbiage,
babble,
baverdage,
baragouin†,
platitude,
niaiserie†;
inanity;
flap-doodle;
rigmarole,
rodomontade;
truism;
nugae canorae [Lat.];
twaddle,
twattle,
fudge,
trash,
garbage,
humbug;
poppy-cock [U.S.];
stuff,
stuff and nonsense;
bosh,
rubbish,
moonshine,
wish-wash,
fiddle-faddle;
absurdity
etc.
497;
vagueness
etc.
(unintelligibility)
519.
[routine or reflexive statements without substantive thought, esp. legal]
boilerplate,
clich??.
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Roget 573:
diffuseness
etc.
adj.;
amplification
etc.
v.;
dilating
etc.
v.;
verbosity,
verbiage,
cloud of words,
copia verborum [Lat.];
flow of words
etc.
(loquacity)
584;
looseness.
Polylogy†,
tautology,
battology†,
perissology†;
pleonasm,
exuberance,
redundancy;
thrice-told tale;
prolixity;
circumlocution,
ambages†;
periphrase†,
periphrasis;
roundabout phrases;
episode;
expletive;
pennya-lining;
richness
etc.
577.
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Dutch: woordenvloed
2 verbiage
The manner in which something is expressed in words:
— Use concise military verbiage.
synonyms: choice of words, diction, phraseology, phrasing, wording.
Dutch: woordkeus, woordkeuze, dictie, bewoording, bewoordingen, formulering, zinswending
Polish: frazeologia
Moby thesaurus: choice of words, circumambages, circumbendibus, circumlocution, cloud of words, composition, dialect, diction, expansiveness, expression, floridity, floridness, flow of words, flux of words, formulation, grammar, idiom, language, lexicon, lexis, locution, logorrhea, long-windedness, longiloquence, nimiety, parlance, periphrase, periphrasis, phrase, phraseology, phrasing, pleonasm, prolixity, redundancy, repetition, rhetoric, roundabout, speech, stock of words, talk, talkativeness, tautology, thesaurus, usage, use of words, usus loquendi, verbalism, verbality, verbosity, vocabulary, wordage, wordhoard, wordiness, wording, words ... show more.
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