diffuseness
Roget category 573
4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties› 4.10. Means of communicating ideas
›› 4.10.2. Conventional means
#573.
Diffuseness
noun
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.
verb
be diffuse
etc.
adj. —
run out on,
descant,
expatiate,
enlarge,
dilate,
amplify,
expand,
inflate —
launch out,
branch out —
rant.
maunder,
prose —
harp upon
etc.
(repeat)
104 —
dwell on,
insist upon.
digress,
ramble,
battre la campagne [Fr.],
beat about the bush,
perorate,
spin a long yarn,
protract —
spin out,
swell out,
draw out —
battologize†.
adjective
diffuse,
profuse —
wordy,
verbose,
largiloquent†,
copious,
exuberant,
pleonastic,
lengthy —
longsome†,
long-winded,
longspun†,
long drawn out —
spun out,
protracted,
prolix,
prosing,
maundering —
circumlocutory,
periphrastic,
ambagious†,
roundabout —
digressive —
discursive,
excursive —
loose —
rambling episodic —
flatulent,
frothy.
adverb
diffusely
etc.
adj. —
at large,
in extenso [Lat.] —
about it and about it.
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