What's the difference between perissological and verbose?
Perissological
Definition:
(a.) Redundant or excessive in words.
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Verbose
Definition:
(a.) Abounding in words; using or containing more words than are necessary; tedious by a multiplicity of words; prolix; wordy; as, a verbose speaker; a verbose argument.
Example Sentences:
(1) They include two leading Republican hopefuls for the presidential race in 2016, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio; three of them enjoy A+ rankings from the NRA and a further eight are listed A. Rand Paul of Kentucky The junior senator's penchant for filibusters became famous during his nearly 13-hour speech against the use unmanned drones, and he is one of three senators who sent an initial missive to Reid , warning him of another verbose round.
(2) There was significant agreement between the qualitative classification and the quantitative rating assessments of verbosity.
(3) It has been established that verbosity, vagueness of definition and inadequate differentiation of the main and secondary signs are objectively manifested in the schizophrenic patients in an increase of a relative richness of vocabulary and of the proportion of rarely used words.
(4) Verbal expression may range from total lack of language to verbosity with echolalia; comprehension and language use are invariably impaired.
(5) Two studies were conducted to develop measures of verbosity in elderly people and to determine the social and psychological correlates of verbose speech.
(6) Interrater reliability was established at .76 and .70 for the two measures of verbosity.
(7) In addition to the previously found associations between verbosity and personality and social variables, higher nonverbal intellectual performance scores obtained in the early adult years combined with poorer current nonverbal scores predicted verbosity in late life.
(8) I know what six hours of suppressed verbosity sounds like: it sounds like a heart breaking.
(9) A tendency for allusive thinkers to be more verbose than non-allusive thinkers was also noted.
(10) Nicknamed "Save Rome", that decree had become so bogged down in a verbose and venomous parliamentary process that Matteo Renzi's new administration withdrew it and said it would find a new way of helping the Rome authorities plug an €816m hole in their budget.
(11) Four older epileptic patients with long histories of left complex partial seizures were verbose.
(12) Twitter isn't for the verbose: Marcel Proust could never have tweeted.
(13) Control subjects demonstrated superior performance on all receptive language and child verbosity measures despite their younger age.
(14) The multiple correlations of these deficit measures with 15 of the Sixteen Personality Factor scales and a measure of verbosity were determined in a sample of 100 schizophrenics.
(15) A quantitative examination of the knowledge base of BLOOD using real laboratory data from 58 patients diagnosed as having iron deficiency anemia clearly revealed the verbosity of the knowledge base, and proved that it was effective for obtaining a group of essential diagnostic rules.
(16) Upon reflection, it appears that at this stageI may have been worried I did not have enough material for a 20-month serialisation as some of the story-telling does seem unnecessarily verbose, but some while later with Mr Micawber out of prison, I left my job and walked to Dover to live with my great-aunt, whom I had never once met seen since the day of my birth.
(17) They allowed unnecessary verbosity from the witnesses.
(18) Meanwhile, the leadership’s surreally verbose outrider Ken Livingstone is characteristically upfront: “People” – and, obviously, he means his people – “have got a right to a candidate they agree with,” he says .
(19) While the traditional music press, most notably the NME, became ever more verbose and sullen and rarefied in response - this was a time when it couldn’t review the new Shakin’ Stevens single without mentioning Roland Barthes, Wyndham Lewis and Ingmar Bergman’s Sommaren med Monika - Smash Hits truly understood what pop music was about.
(20) Verbosity, however, may permit inferences regarding potential verbal behavior.