verboseness, verbosity

an expressive style that uses excessive words

• verbiage — overabundance of words
• prolixity, prolixness, long-windedness, wordiness — boring verboseness
• circumlocution, periphrasis — a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things
• repetitiveness, repetitiousness — verboseness resulting from excessive repetitions
• pleonasm — using more words than necessary

• expressive style, style — a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period