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English Dictionary: Verboseness by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
verboseness
n
  1. an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words
    Synonym(s): verboseness, verbosity
    Antonym(s): terseness
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Verbose \Ver*bose"\, a. [L. verbosus, from verbum a word. See
      {Verb}.]
      Abounding in words; using or containing more words than are
      necessary; tedious by a multiplicity of words; prolix; wordy;
      as, a verbose speaker; a verbose argument.
  
               Too verbose in their way of speaking.      --Ayliffe.
      -- {Ver*bose"ly}, adv. -- {Ver*bose"ness}, n.
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