Words and phrases that have a meaning related to wordiness: (125 results)
Often used in the same context:
prolixity, verbosity, triteness, journalese, didacticism, terseness, inarticulateness, sarcasms, infelicities, pedantry, grandiloquence, pithiness, indirectness, pompousness, circumlocution, facetiousness, logorrhea, prose, archaisms, windiness, archness, punctiliousness, cantankerousness, pedant, nabokovian, bookishness, glibness, wryness, cavils, versification, comprehensibility, expository, clownishness, staginess, succinctness, punctuation, loquacity, irascibility, concision, ironist, artlessness, chattiness, ambiguousness, ineloquent, crudities, crabbiness, repetitiveness, smarminess, scansion, incoherency, subjunctive, lugubriousness, metafiction, incomprehensibility, brevity, sulkiness, unintelligibility, epigrams, melodramatics, drollery, pushiness, shavian, prosody, moralizing, maupassant, tendentiousness, expostulation, pentameter, taciturnity, adverbs, cleverness, similes, lexis, plainness, woodenness, solecism, wordplay, dilettantism, orotund, literalness, incredulousness, peevishness, articulateness, misquotation, politesse, snippiness, cibber, tediousness, grammarian, inelegance, schemata, split infinitive, ruefulness, homiletic, anaphora, sestina, acerbity, puerility, antonym, literalism, alliteration, joylessness, affectation, diffuseness, pomposity, annoyance, artificiality, coarseness, harshness, lavishness, rudeness, slovenliness, tiredness, awkwardness, bombast, crudeness, extravagance, frivolity, ostentation
More specific:
flatulence, turgidity, turgidness
More general:
verboseness
Synonyms:
Also try:long-windedness, prolixness
— Adjectives for wordiness: excessive, avoid, empty, unnecessary, mere, unwonted, such, general, much, incredible, undue, more...
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