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Definition of verbiage : The use of many words without necessity, or with little sense; a superabundance of words; verbosity; wordiness.

Synonyms:

periphrasis, verbalism, verbal expression, wordiness, tautology, wordage, redundancy, diffusion, verbosity, style, choice of words, redundance, phrasing, windiness, circumlocution, long-windedness, pleonasm, wording, verboseness, prolixity, expression, diffuseness, words, diction, excess, phraseology, surplusage, enunciation, tediousness

loquacity

nomenclature, jargon, thesaurus, term, terminology, vocabulary, lexicon, name, word

Usage examples:

• The old religious books were neglected and the new works showed a directness of statement, an absence of Biblical verbiage and a closer bearing on everyday life and thought.
• The verbiage of this resolution showed its parentage.
• I was in that eagerness of early and incomplete knowledge which is more ready in expression than that of riper years, and it is probable that I distinguished myself by fluency of verbiage. - "The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I", William James Stillman.