verboseness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

VERBO'SENESS, noun 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.
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