terseness, wordiness, inarticulateness, circumlocution, pedantry, indirectness, nabokovian, verbosity, journalese, infelicities, grandiloquence, pompousness, obtuseness, facetiousness, triteness, superciliousness, loquacity, punctiliousness, ambiguousness, pithiness, tautologies, politesse, ineffectuality, priggishness, concision, inscrutability, dilettantism, panegyric, insubstantiality, casuistry, peevishness, sophist, dullness, orotund, contrariness, allusiveness, windiness, monomania, clownishness, presumptuousness, acerbity, wilfulness, slightness, speciousness, archaisms, taciturnity, explications, johnsonian, weightiness, cantankerousness, knavery, billet doux, succinctness, arioso, unworldliness, plainness, incuriosity, incomprehensibility, stolidity, turgidity, abjection, inelegance, incoherency, cogitation, garrulousness, perspicuity, poesy, didacticism, logorrhea, blitheness, obliqueness, chiasmus, lugubriousness, furtiveness, archness, ineloquent, enormities, vainglory, tetchiness, malignity, inexactitude, etymologies, wryness, sarcasms, shavian, split infinitive, bewitchment, flummery, factuality, inconstancy, subjunctive mood, imposture, brevity, impenetrability, doubleness, eloquence, buncombe, spitefulness, cavils, literalism, anaphora, poeticism, diffuseness, tediousness, harshness, tardiness, exaggeration, extravagance, heaviness, monotony, pomposity, procrastination, slowness, intricacy, scrupulosity, subtilty, superfluity, thoroughness, vagueness, acrimony, dryness

flatulence, turgidity, turgidness

verboseness, verbosity

long-windedness, prolixness, wordiness