verbosity
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Verbosity, or verboseness, is speech or writing that uses more words than necessary. The opposite of verbosity is succinctness.
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Verbosity, or verboseness, is speech or writing that uses more words than necessary. The opposite of verbosity is succinctness.
Some teachers, including the author of The Elements of Style, warn against verbosity. Similarly Mark Twain and Ernest Hemingway, among others, famously avoided it.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “verbosity” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.