Words and phrases that have a meaning related to prolixity: (126 results)
Often used in the same context:
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
More specific:
flatulence, turgidness
More general:
verboseness
Synonyms:
Also try:long-windedness, prolixness
— Adjectives for prolixity: great, unnecessary, tedious, such, much, uncouth, wearisome, undue, intolerable, more, occasional, more...
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