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Definition of verbosity : The quality or state of being verbose; the use of more words than are necessary; prolixity; wordiness; verbiage.

Synonyms:

surplusage, verboseness, diffusion, tediousness, style, pleonasm, circumlocution, verbiage, prolixity, diffuseness, garrulity, logorrhea, redundance, garrulousness, long-windedness, wordage, words, periphrasis, excess, tautology, redundancy

loquacity

ponderousness, superfluity, bombast, endlessness, lengthiness, chattiness, loquaciousness, grandiloquence, excessiveness, verbalism, featherbedding, windiness, wordiness, talkativeness

Usage examples:

• His style, especially in his latter years, was rough, involved, uncongenial; often obscure from its very verbosity; and, when clear, fatiguing the reader by so thoroughly exhausting the subject as to leave nothing for him to do but read. - "Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland", Henry B. Stanton.
• Against all this mystification both of silence and verbosity Shaw has been a splendid and smashing protest. - "George Bernard Shaw", Gilbert K. Chesterton.
• But verbosity and want of unity are not the worst faults of this definition. - "The Grammar of English Grammars", Goold Brown.