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long-windedness

 
Thesaurus: long-windedness
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noun

    Words or the use of words in excess of those needed for clarity or precision: diffuseness, diffusion, pleonasm, prolixity, redundancy, verbiage, verboseness, verbosity, windiness, wordage, wordiness. See excess/insufficiency/enough, style/good style/bad style, words.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: boring verboseness
  Synonyms: prolixity, prolixness, wordiness

 
 
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