verbiage

n.

1. An excess of words for the purpose; wordiness.
2. The manner in which something is expressed in words: software verbiage.

[French, from Old French verbier, to chatter, from verbe, word, from Latin verbum. See verb.]

noun

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

n

Definition: repetition, wordiness
Antonyms: conciseness

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When the context involves a software or hardware system, this refers to documentation. This term borrows the connotations of mainstream ‘verbiage’ to suggest that the documentation is of marginal utility and that the motives behind its production have little to do with the ostensible subject.

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IN BRIEF: Use of many words to say very little.

The speech had much verbiage but little information.

Dansk (Danish)
n. - ordflom, fraser, floskler, vidtløftighed, ordskvalder

Nederlands (Dutch)
breedsprakigheid, wijze van zeggen, woordenvloed

Français (French)
n. - verbiage

Deutsch (German)
n. - Geschwätzigkeit, Wortschwall

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - απεραντολογία, πολυλογία

Italiano (Italian)
verbositý

Português (Portuguese)
n. - verbosidade (f)

Русский (Russian)
многословие, словоблудие, манера выражаться

Español (Spanish)
n. - verborrea, verborragia

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - mångordighet

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
多废话, 冗长, 多冗词

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 多廢話, 冗長, 多冗詞

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 쓸데없는 말이 많음, 말씨

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - ことば数の多いこと, 冗長

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) اسهاب الكلام, حشو‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮רוב מלל, גיבוב מלים‬

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