(n.) The quality or state of being verbose; the use of more words than are necessary; prolixity; wordiness; verbiage.
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.
Wordiness
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being wordy, or abounding with words; verboseness.
Example Sentences:
(1) The spouse's communication shows a continuous reciprocal attempt not to define their own relation, by the use of a wide wordiness, that includes different subjects and meanings in a confusive and spiral-shaped sequence.
(2) Although he initially found Thomas's wordiness difficult to convey, he was won over by Under Milk Wood 's "craziness".
(3) In years to come, the currently wordy declaration could prove to be a point of change.
(4) That was Philip Drew, the deputy head, whose stern, wordy, slightly sarcastic admonishments of pupils conformed to traditional stereotypes of how heads behave.
(5) The donation, accredited to 28-year-old Evgeny, went to American Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour's rather wordy cause, the Council of Fashion Designers of America Vogue Fashion Fund.
(6) So the "zero draft", as it's named, is a very long, wordy, worthy document.
(7) The student style – bouncy energy, fast pace, very wordy – could be dialled down.
(8) I don't like 'clever' comedy, it's always far too wordy.
(9) But being a wordy sort of person and also much given to fruitless rumination, I would have been more likely to spend 20 minutes and several paras (yes: even in a txt msg) trying to convey perfectly my empathetic rage at her thwarted desire and suggest half-a-dozen doomed compromises ("Perhaps if you left after the first course your great aunt wouldn't be too hurt?").
(10) He followed it with Hunky Dory (1972), a mix of wordy, elaborate songwriting ( The Bewlay Brothers or Quicksand ), crunchy rockers ( Queen Bitch ) and infectious pop songs ( Kooks ).
(11) Ask me what the greatest influence on the modern English-language novel is, and I won't mention Ulysses (a wordy, self-referential cul-de-sac) and I won't mention Lady Chatterley (honest but snobbish), I will say one word: screen.
(12) It was too long, too wordy, too complex for most of them – and getting to the end of it so that they were sufficiently prepared to be able to answer questions on it in an examination context was a slog for them and for me.
(13) Instead, the document is dominated by wordy phrases about the necessity of attaining social and economic development in those countries.
(14) There is a theory that domestic violence occurs when men run out of words and we could be dealing with a related strain – the dull-minded bloke, imagining himself a romantic but getting all tired at the thought of wordy passion, flexing his fingers instead.
(15) The question being asked is wordy and vague, its legal consequence unclear, and its primary context seems parochial.