verbiage
| Definition: | (noun) The excessive and often meaningless use ofwords; verbosity. |
| Synonyms: | repetition, tautology, redundancy, circumlocution, prolixity, periphrasis, pleonasm |
| Usage: | He is generally a smooth and fluent versifier, but hisfluency is his undoing; he wraps up his material in toogreat a mass of verbiage. Discuss. |
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