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verbosity

/ver-bos-i-tee/US // vərˈbɒs ɪ ti //

动词,动词量,多余性,动词的数量

Related Words

verboseness动词性,动词,动词词性,动词错误verbiage言语,语言文字,语词,语气词loquacity顽固不化,胆怯,胆量,顽固性prolixity冗长的文字,冗长的语言,白话文,冗长的语速logorrhea逻各斯,逻各斯症,逻各斯病,逻各斯氏症loquaciousness褊狭性,褊狭主义,褊狭,褊狭的人talkativeness谈话性,言谈举止,健谈性,健谈long-windedness啰嗦,啰里啰嗦,啰里啰嗦的,啰嗦话garrulous唠唠叨叨,唠叨,唠唠叨叨的,贫嘴

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the state or quality of being verbose; superfluity of words; wordiness: His speeches were always marred by verbosity.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounwordiness
Synonyms
logorrhea逻各斯,逻各斯症,逻各斯病,逻各斯氏症long-windedness啰嗦,啰里啰嗦,啰里啰嗦的,啰嗦话loquaciousness褊狭性,褊狭主义,褊狭,褊狭的人loquacity顽固不化,胆怯,胆量,顽固性prolixity冗长的文字,冗长的语言,白话文,冗长的语速talkativeness谈话性,言谈举止,健谈性,健谈verbiage言语,语言文字,语词,语气词verboseness动词性,动词,动词词性,动词错误garrulous唠唠叨叨,唠叨,唠唠叨叨的,贫嘴

Examples

  • The last chapter, however, surpasses all the others in verbosity.

  • He must learn to exchange his verbosity for action in the great battle of life.

  • She was glad that she did not have to talk, that her new employer's verbosity covered up her own silence.

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

  • Its first meaning of "abundance" is liable, as Erasmus begins by showing, to be understood as mere verbosity.

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