wordiness
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The wordiness and harmonies of these songs are somewhat similar.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2023
The result is some wordiness — encounters rendered with admirable sincerity but that feel superfluous, or overlong, as in the protracted scene that begins Act 2 between Brandon and his sister, Bronkovic’s Brittany.
From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2022
Eliminating wordiness should not alter or omit information.
From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
She sang a version of Sondheim’s “Another Hundred People,” with lyrics like “Another hundred syllables came out of my mouth,” mocking the composer’s wordiness.
From Slate • Sep. 19, 2016
An unnecessary profusion of words is called verbiage: verbosity, wordiness.
From The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. by Osmun, Thomas Embly
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Language and Grammar - High School
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