wordiness

There was a vast amount of whisper and low-toned wordiness, subsurface complaint and counter-complaint.

Here is a writer who began literature with a sense of words, and who is declining into a mere sense of wordiness.

An unnecessary profusion of words is called verbiage: verbosity, wordiness.

They have the wordiness of hasty composition, and the discursive rhetoric intended to catch the attention of an indolent audience.

We witness its disastrous effects in the empty wordiness of many extemporaneous preachers.