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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PROLIXITY, PROLIXNESS

n.Great length; minute detail; applied only to discourses and writings. Prolixity is not always tedious.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PROLIXITY

Pro *lix "i *ty, n. Etym: [L. prolixitas: cf. F. prolixité. ]

 

Defn: The quality or state of being prolix; great length; minute detail; as, prolixity in discourses and writings. "For fulsomeness of his prolixitee." Chaucer. Idly running on with vain prolixity. Drayton.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

prolixity

pro l í x i ty /-əti /名詞 U ｟かたく ｠冗長さ, くどさ .