prolixity – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
prolixity
n.
state of being boring, tediousness, dullness; verbosity, excessive wordiness, excessive lengthiness
Verbosity
Verbosity or
verboseness is speech or writing which uses more words than needed. A common example is "Despite the fact that" as a common replacement for "Although". Antonyms of verbosity include
succinctness,
concision,
laconism, and
plain language.
prolixity
Noun
1. boring verboseness
(synonym) prolixness, long-windedness, wordiness
(hypernym) verboseness, verbosity
(hyponym) turgidity, turgidness, flatulence
(attribute) concise
Prolixity
(n.)
The quality or state of being prolix; great length; minute detail; as, prolixity in discourses and writings.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
prolixity
Synonyms and related words:
bedizenment, big mouth, boringness, candor, cloud of words, communicativeness, conversableness, dullness, duplication, duplication of effort, effusion, effusiveness, embellishment, expletive, extravagance, fat, featherbedding, filling, flow of words, flowing tongue, fluency, fluent tongue, flux de bouche, flux de paroles, flux of words, frankness, frill, frills, frippery, garrulity, garrulousness, gassiness, gift of gab, gingerbread, glibness, gregariousness, gush, gushiness, humdrumminess, humdrumness, irksomeness, logorrhea, long-windedness, longiloquence, loose tongue, loquaciousness, loquacity, luxury, monotonousness, needlessness, openness, ornamentation, overadornment, overlap, padding, payroll padding, pleonasm, redundance, redundancy, slush, sociability, spate of words, superfluity, superfluousness, talkativeness, tautology, tediousness, tiresomeness, unnecessariness, verbalism, verbality, verbiage, verboseness, verbosity, volubility, wearifulness, wearisomeness, windiness, wordiness
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
