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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; ... show more

Roget 573: diffuseness etc. adj.; amplification etc. v.; dilating etc. v.; verbosity, verbiage, cloud of words, copia verborum [Lat.]; flow of words ... show more

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 ... show more.

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