prolixity 的定义
- the state or quality of being unnecessarily or tediously wordy; verbosity: The book offers food for thought but, for all its prolixity, fails to effectively explain what is at the core of irony as a rhetorical strategy.
- a tendency to speak or write at great or tedious length:As a communicator, the official suffers from a lethal mix of ailments: terminal prolixity, rampant hyperbole, and a preference for bureaucratic jargon.
prolixity 近义词
wordiness
更多prolixity例句
- If I selected lucid and simple extracts, they would give no idea of the intricacy and prolixity of Duns.
- Mrs. G. is extremely satisfied with my diligence and prolixity; but seems to wish that we would settle her account with Gilbert.
- Soundings and courses and distances, are detailed with the tedious prolixity, and probably, with the uncertainty of the era.
- Her patriotism knew no bounds, and her prolixity was much on the same scale.
- Grotius's great attention was to avoid prolixity and confusion in his pleadings.