verbosity means the excess use of words, especially using more than are needed for clarity or precision. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 82 out of 100.
Why this word is great
VERBOSITY — [Noun] The quality or state of using more words than are needed for clarity or precision. From Middle French verbosité, from Late Latin verbōsitās, from Latin verbōsus (“wordy”), from verbum (“word”). Unlike succinctness, which is the surgical art of excision, or verbiage, which suggests a swamp of empty jargon, verbosity is the earnest, often self-deluding overflow of language for its own sake. It is the lecturer who erects a labyrinth of subordinate clauses around a simple point; the official letter that buries its news beneath ceremonial preamble; the love letter whose prolix declarations smother the simple affection at its heart. It is the sound of a mind, enchanted by its own murmur, forgetting the shore.
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- The excess use of words, especially using more than are needed for clarity or precision.“With Christie's words about "all-talk-no-action" in mind, notice that Obama and his two secretaries of state, Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, as well as his vice president, Joe Biden, were all senators, the last two serving for two or three decades, respectively. Not forgetting the ill-fated secretary of defense, Senator Chuck Hagel. Their capacity for talking so much and saying so little is aston”