verbiage
[noun]
Synonyms: circumambages, circumbendibus, circumlocution, periphrase, periphrasis, pleonasm, redundancy, roundabout, tautology, verbality, wording, diction, parlance, phrase, phraseology, phrasing, verbalism, wordage

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Antonyms: concision
Contrasted words: breviloquence, brevity, briefness, terseness
Related Idioms: purple prose
Related Words: nimiety, repetition, expansiveness, floridity, floridness, longiloquence, long-windedness

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ver‧bi‧age /ˈvɜːbi-ɪdʒ $ ˈvɜːr-/ noun [uncountable] formal
[Date: 1700-1800; Language: French; Origin: Old French verbier 'to talk a lot', from verbe; ⇒ verb]
speech or writing that has many unnecessary words in it:
meaningless verbiage

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