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Definition of wordiness : The quality or state of being wordy, or abounding with words; verboseness.

Synonyms:

surplusage, diffuseness, garrulity, breeziness, garrulousness, copiousness, redundance, turgidity, pleonasm, redundancy, rhetoric, tediousness, indirectness, flow of words, diffusion, logorrhea, prolixity, repetition, long-windedness, excess, verbiage, words, fullness, wordage, periphrasis, verboseness, tautology, circumlocution, prolixness, style

loquacity

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

Usage examples:

• The disjunctive connexion of explicit pronouns is the most correct, but it savours too much of legal precision and wordiness to be always eligible. - "The Grammar of English Grammars", Goold Brown.