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English-Thai Dictionary

verbosity

N การ ใช้ ถ้อยคำ มากเกินไป  wordiness loquacity prolixity kan-chai-toi-kam-mak-koen-pai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

VERBOSITY, VERBOSENESS

n. 1. Employment of a superabundance of words; the use of more words than are necessary; as the verbosity of a speaker.
2. Superabundance of words; prolixity; as the verbosity of a discourse or argument.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

VERBOSITY

Ver *bos "i *ty n.; pl. Verbosities. Etym: [L. verbositas: cf. F.verbosité.]

 

Defn: The quality or state of being verbose; the use of more words than are necessary; prolixity; wordiness; verbiage. The worst fault, by far, is the extreme diffuseness and verbosity of his style. Jeffrey.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

verbosity

ver bos i ty |vərˈbäsətē vɜːrˈbɑːsəti | noun the quality of using more words than needed; wordiness: a critic with a reputation for verbosity.

 

Oxford Dictionary

verbosity

verbosity |vəˈbɒsɪti | noun [ mass noun ] the fact or quality of using more words than needed; wordiness: a critic with a reputation for verbosity.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

verbosity

verbosity noun the dialogue is a reasonable compromise between clarity and verbosity: wordiness, verboseness, loquacity, garrulity, talkativeness, volubility, expansiveness, babbling, blathering, waffling, prattling, prating, jabbering, gushing; long-windedness, lengthiness, protractedness, verbiage, prolixity, periphrasis, tautology, circumlocution, convolution, redundancy; diffuseness, discursiveness, digressiveness; informal the gift of the gab, big mouth, mouthiness, gassiness, gabbiness, windiness, blah-blah, gobbledegook; Brit. informal wittering; rare orotundity, logorrhoea, multiloquence, pleonasm, perissology. ANTONYMS brevity, taciturnity.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

verbosity

ver bos i ty /vəː r bɑ́səti |-bɔ́s -/名詞 U かたく 言葉数の多いこと (wordiness ), くどいこと, 冗長, 冗漫 .