What's the difference between woodiness and wordiness?

Woodiness


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being woody.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "I want to talk about Curb Your Enthusiasm instead, and the paintings of Chagall, the music of Amy Winehouse and Woody Allen films."
  • (2) In the 1990s Woody's daughter, Nora Guthrie, began a labour of love, gathering up all her father's papers and creating the Woody Guthrie Archive in New York City.
  • (3) Along with Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly, he brought the music of the dirt farms, the sweat shops and the lonesome highways into America's – and later the world's – living room.
  • (4) AP Magic in the Moonlight Colin Firth in Magic in the Moonlight Woody Allen remains a hero at Cannes, an arena largely untroubled by accusation and counter-accusation surrounding his private life.
  • (5) Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway, based on his 1994 film, gets six nominations.
  • (6) He raised $3.1m , and then explained the Kickstarter crowdfunding concept to Woody Allen, who apparently "won't stop talking" about it .
  • (7) Here, fruit and vegetables left unsold each day in Budgens are mulched, along with woody branches and soil, by the 20 local people who volunteer in the garden.
  • (8) There are the usual reasons: Woody Allen is famous and at the top of his professional craft, and this is basically a he said-she said situation without the proof we've come to expect in the 21st century: DNA results, salacious texts and emails, that sort of thing.
  • (9) In what was a golden night for the veterans, Martin Scorsese won best director for his 3D fantasy Hugo and Woody Allen took the screenplay prize for Midnight in Paris.
  • (10) In the autumn large amounts of a major storage protein accumulate in the woody stem of poplar trees.
  • (11) During the interview, I will see a flash of another mode from Keaton, on the subject of Woody Allen .
  • (12) The disorder appeared after an acute episode of tonsillitis, followed by non-pitting, woody hardness of the skin of the face, neck, shoulders and upper part of the trunk.
  • (13) To investigate an apparent decline of the onchocerciasis vector Simulium woodi, in the Simulium neavei group, weekly 12-hour biting catches on man were carried out for 13 months near Amani and compared with those obtained 22 years earlier.
  • (14) Alas, as I don’t have a copy of The Alchemist to hand – and with it a pencil to write, in the words of Woody Allen , “Yes, very true!” in every margin – I’ll just have to get on with it.
  • (15) Woody Allen's nakedly auto­biographical film is the Oscar-winning sensation which put him on the map – and it's probably his best film, too.
  • (16) The second technique is an adaptive filter method of averaged cross-correlations, developed by Woody (1967), which deals with the variable latency problem.
  • (17) In May, more than 120 prominent international writers and artists, including Philip Roth, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Patti Smith, Woody Allen and Stephen Sondheim, called on Sisi to release Naji in a letter sent by free speech organisation PEN America.
  • (18) For Beale – known as “Woody” to his friends – the barbershop trip is not just a quick in-and-out appointment.
  • (19) The restoration of This Land Is Your Land demonstrates the dichotomies of Woody Guthrie and the American patriotic left, which loves the land (the dream, even) but fights the system – only to be embraced by that system.
  • (20) A surprisingly persistent misconception, to this day, is that the real Woody Allen must be broadly the same as his movie persona: the fretful nebbish , plagued by hypochondria, beset by existential terrors, anxious to the point of paralysis.

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.

Words possibly related to "woodiness"

Words possibly related to "wordiness"