REPETITIOUSNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does repetitiousness mean? 

• REPETITIOUSNESS (noun)
  The noun REPETITIOUSNESS has 1 sense:

1. verboseness resulting from excessive repetitions

  Familiarity information: REPETITIOUSNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPETITIOUSNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Verboseness resulting from excessive repetitions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

repetitiousness; repetitiveness

Hypernyms ("repetitiousness" is a kind of...):

verboseness; verbosity (an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "repetitiousness"):

redundancy (repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission)

tautology (useless repetition)

Derivation:

repetitious (characterized by repetition)