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wordfulness

wordfulness noun: wordiness; verbosity; verboseness.

Noun

wordfulness (uncountable)

  1. (uncommon) Wordiness; verbosity; verboseness.
    • So far as he has yet gone in Parliament it is impossible to forget that the Bill is his Brief, and whether it be of less or greater importance, he speaks with the same conscientious preparation, and identically the same impressive wordfulness.1898 September, Grille, “A Lady's Impressions of the House of Commons”, in Leopold Maxse, editor, The National Review, volume 32, number 187, page 120
    • This volume is, in its way, a masterpiece of erudition ; it mingles flashes of beauty with wordfulness and meaningless exposition and, as the reviewer intimated at the beginning, reaches, as deductions, the presuppositions with which it starts out—conclusions which, however, were made more...1941, Charles S. Macfarland, “Contemporary Theology” (chapter I), in Current Religious Thought: A Digest, Fleming H. Revell Company, A Christian Anthropology (section 5), page 35

Origin of wordfulness

From wordful + -ness.

Questions about wordfulness

What does wordfulness mean?
Wordfulness means wordiness; verbosity; verboseness.
What part of speech is wordfulness?
Wordfulness is a noun.

Words near wordfulness in the dictionary

  1. wordflow
  2. wordflows
  3. wordform
  4. wordforms
  5. wordful
  6. wordfulness
  7. wordfuls
  8. wordgame
  9. wordgames
  10. wordhoard
  11. wordhoards

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