
Verbosity
Brevity Preferred
In academic or formal contexts, being concise is valued over verbosity.
To enhance clarity, avoid verbosity in your essays.
Possible Negativity
Using 'verbosity' may imply a negative opinion about someone's wordiness.
The editor criticized the manuscript's verbosity.
Listener Fatigue
Excessive verbosity can overwhelm or bore your audience.
His verbosity made the audience tune out of the lecture.
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CircumlocutionProlixityRedundancyTautologyVerbiageWordiness
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