verbiage

noun

Etymology: From French verbiage. Compare verb meaning "word" in verbal and verbose.

1. Overabundance of words.

   “bureaucratic verbiage”

   “We're done drafting our paper except for the final check to see whether any verbiage can be reduced.”

2. The manner in which something is expressed in words; word choice.

   “Near-synonyms: phrasing; terminology; phraseology”

   “In each article of this series, there is a paragraph on nutrition; the verbiage for it was developed by consensus among the section editors, and therefore no elective rewording should be done (by others) in any such paragraph.”