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verbiage
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verbiage
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun verbiage has 2 senses
- verbiage(n = noun.communication) verbalism - overabundance of words; Array is a kind of verboseness, verbosity
- verbiage(n = noun.communication) choice of words, diction, phraseology, phrasing, wording - the manner in which something is expressed in words; "use concise military verbiage" is a kind of expression, formulation
has particulars: mot juste, verbalisation, verbalization
CIDE DICTIONARY
verbiage, n. [F. verbiage, from OF. verbe a word. See Verb.].
The use of many words without necessity, or with little sense; a superabundance of words; verbosity; wordiness. [1913 Webster]
"Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking."
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"This barren verbiage current among men."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
verbiage, n. needless accumulation of words; verbosity.
Etymology
F f. obs. verbeier chatter f. verbe word: see VERB
THESAURUS
verbiage
choice of words, circumambages, circumbendibus, circumlocution, cloud of words, composition, dialect, diction, expansiveness, expression, floridity, floridness, flow of words, flux of words, formulation, grammar, idiom, language, lexicon, lexis, locution, logorrhea, long-windedness, longiloquence, nimiety, parlance, periphrase, periphrasis, phrase, phraseology, phrasing, pleonasm, prolixity, redundancy, repetition, rhetoric, roundabout, speech, stock of words, talk, talkativeness, tautology, thesaurus, usage, use of words, usus loquendi, verbalism, verbality, verbosity, vocabulary, wordage, wordhoard, wordiness, wording, wordsROGET THESAURUS
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Diffuseness
N diffuseness, amplification, dilating, verbosity, verbiage, cloud of words, copia verborum, flow of words, looseness, Polylogy, tautology, battology, perissology, pleonasm, exuberance, redundancy, thrice-told tale, prolixity, circumlocution, ambages, periphrase, periphrasis, roundabout phrases, episode, expletive, pennya-lining, richness, diffuse, profuse, wordy, verbose, largiloquent, copious, exuberant, pleonastic, lengthy, longsome, long-winded, longspun, long drawn out, spun out, protracted, prolix, prosing, maundering, circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious, roundabout, digressive, discursive, excursive, loose, rambling episodic, flatulent, frothy, diffusely, at large, in extenso, about it and about it.Unmeaningness
N meaninglessness, unmeaningness, scrabble, empty sound, dead letter, vox et praeterea nihil, a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing, sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal, nonsense, utter nonsense, gibberish, jargon, jabber, mere words, hocus-pocus, fustian, rant, bombast, balderdash, palaver, flummery, verbiage, babble, baverdage, baragouin, platitude, niaiserie, inanity, flap-doodle, rigmarole, rodomontade, truism, nugae canorae, twaddle, twattle, fudge, trash, garbage, humbug, poppy-cock, stuff, stuff and nonsense, bosh, rubbish, moonshine, wish-wash, fiddle- faddle, absurdity, vagueness, boilerplate, clich_¬, unmeaning, meaningless, senseless, nonsensical, void of sense, inexpressive, unexpressive, vacant, not significant, insignificant, trashy, washy, trumpery, trivial, fiddle-faddle, twaddling, quibbling, unmeant, not expressed, tacit, inexpressible, undefinable, incommunicable.
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