perissological

Adjective

perissological (comparative more perissological, superlative most perissological)

1. (rare) Redundant or excessive in words.
   • We skated out tangents and cotangents of majestic circles, together with signs and wonders, versed, inversed, and reversed, which it would be perissological to enumerate.1855 March, “A Trip to Lake Saltonstall”, in The Yale Literary Magazine, volume 20, page 180
   • I am reluctantly driven to thinking, however, that, as Mr. Schutze finds it as hard to believe these currently-accepted scientific explanations of phenomena as it is to believe in the Holy Trinity, his days of mental progress must have me to an end, in which case further discussion of these...1886 February 27, W.L. Prosser, “Letter to the Editor”, in Secular Review: A Journal of Agnosticism, volume 18, page 142
2. Serving to reinforce a message; having strong associations.
   • But these are changes that would modify neither the sets of values expressed in a perissological way nor the non-verbal communication that takes place around the artefact in question.2016, Pierre Lemonnier, Mundane Objects: Materiality and Non-verbal Communication, page 158
   • Perissological resonators can reveal relationships extant in various domains like kinship, exchange, death, marriage etc.2020, Niraj Kumar, George van Driem, Phunchok Stobdan, Himalayan Bridge, page 87