Verbosity
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This article is about the linguistic and stylistic term. For the psychological term, see Logorrhea (psychology).
For verbosity in computing and user interface design, see Verbose mode.
Verbosity, or verboseness, is speech or writing that uses more words than necessary.[1] The opposite of verbosity is succinctness.[dubious ā discuss]
Some teachers, including the author of The Elements of Style, warn against verbosity. Similarly Mark Twain and Ernest Hemingway, among others, famously avoid it.
Synonyms of "verbosity" include wordiness, verbiage, prolixity, grandiloquence, garrulousness, expatiation, logorrhea, sesquipedalianism, and overwriting.