as in repetition
the use of too many words to express an idea
wordiness will only detract from what you are trying to say
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Noun
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His first senior goals may not have been as eye-catching, but they were similarly steeped in repetition.—
Art de Roché, The Athletic, 7 Feb. 2025
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Start with lighter weights and higher repetitions to practice form and build muscular endurance.—
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Anyway, political verbosity, as measured by State of the Union addresses, has risen during the twenty-first century.—
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When that’s chucked in a blender with his own penchant for spiky-savvy verbosity, the results fizz and pop.—
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On their website, the three yellow stripes are prominently featured on the website under the Black Lives Matter wordage, and used on their social media accounts.—
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Reached by the Union-Tribune Wednesday morning, Lindsey differed with McGillis’ wordage.—
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Just as the limitless space of web text tempts writers to indulge their logorrhea, the blinking, ever-transmuting, cartoonish interface of web browsers prevents would-be readers from paying attention to anything for longer than about 7 seconds.—
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Nor has Musk kept his Twitter logorrhea in check in other respects.—
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But the question of who is in charge — of who is playing the role in Los Angeles that Mr. Giuliani did in New York, to use one example — is also testimony to the diffusion and, at times, dysfunction that make up the core DNA of the governance of the greater Los Angeles area.—
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There is a 120-day comment period that ends on May 15 on the AI diffusion rules, unless Trump reverses or revises the rule before then.—
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Here, instead, she’s swayed by a dead Diana softly squeezing her hand and kindly hinting — the dead Diana is an ace at tactful circumlocution — that now is the time to show a mourning nation some emotion.—
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By condensing Balzac’s opus to a few paragraphs, Barthelme was having a laugh not just at his predecessor’s genteel circumlocution—his tendency to describe buildings and manufacturing procedures and family trees in lavish detail—but also at the conventions of novelistic mimesis itself.—
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“Wordiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wordiness. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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