WORDINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wordiness mean? 

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

1. boring verbosity

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WORDINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Boring verbosity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

long-windedness; prolixity; prolixness; windiness; wordiness

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

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

Attribute:

concise (expressing much in few words)

prolix (tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length)

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

flatulence; turgidity; turgidness (pompously embellished language)

Derivation:

wordy (using or containing too many words)