verbosity
UK/vəˈbɒsəti//vɚˈbɑsəti/
verbosity noun: the excess use of words, especially using more than are needed for clarity or precision.
Noun
verbosity (countable and uncountable, plural verbosities)
- The excess use of words, especially using more than are needed for clarity or precision.
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- Synonyms:
- long-windedness, verboseness, wordiness, verbiage, prolixity, ambages, circumlocution, logorrhea, logorrhoea, overwordiness
verbosity meaning in Urdu, Malayalam, Kannada and Sanskrit
verbosity in Urdu
- کثرت الکلامی, لفاظی
verbosity in Malayalam
- wordiness, loquacity, garrulity
- വാചാലത, ശബ്ദബാഹുല്യം, വാചകാതിസാരം, അത്യുക്തി, അക്ഷരാഡം ബരം, അതിഭാഷണം
verbosity in Kannada
- ವಾಗಾಡಂಬರ, ಶಬ್ದಾತಿಶಯ, ಅತಿಮಾತು, ವಾಗ್ಜಾಲ, ಮಾತಿನ ಸರಣಿ, ಶಬ್ದ ಸಮೂಹ
verbosity in Sanskrit
- verbosity
- आडम्बर āḍámbara
Synonyms of verbosity
- long-windedness
- verboseness
- wordiness
- verbiage
- prolixity
- ambages
- circumlocution
- logorrhea
- logorrhoea
- overwordiness
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Antonyms
Forms of verbosity
| plural | verbosities |
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Origin of verbosity
From Middle French verbosité, from Late Latin verbōsitās. By surface analysis, verbose + -ity.
Words that rhyme with verbosity
Questions about verbosity
- What does verbosity mean?
- Verbosity means the excess use of words, especially using more than are needed for clarity or precision.
- What is verbosity in Urdu?
- Verbosity in Urdu is کثرت الکلامی, لفاظی. See Verbosity meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is verbosity?
- Verbosity is a noun.
- How do you pronounce verbosity?
- Verbosity is pronounced /vəˈbɒsəti/ (UK).
- What is the plural of verbosity?
- The plural of verbosity is verbosities.
Words near verbosity in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: verbosity (page history and authors); verbosity (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); verbosity (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); verbosity (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); आडम्बर (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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