wordiness; style of verbal expression
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Verbiage Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(n.)
The use of many words without necessity, or with little sense; a superabundance of words; verbosity; wordiness.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutThe use of many words without necessity, or with little sense; a superabundance of words; verbosity; wordiness.
verbiage
\ver"bi*age\ (?; 48), n. [f. verbiage, from of. verbe a word. see verb.] the use of many words without necessity, or with little sense; a superabundance of words; verbosity; wordiness. verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking. irving. this barren verbiage current among men.
verbiage
n
1. overabundance of words
2. the manner in which something is expressed in words: "use concise military verbiage"- g.s.patton [syn: wording, diction, phrasing, phraseology, choice of words]
Use of many words without necessity.
The use of many words without necessity, or with little sense; a superabundance of words; verbosity, wordiness.
EXAMPLE SENTENCES:
Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head, make their point of constructive criticism and continue on in calm forbearance. Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.(QUENTIN CRISP)
Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking.'' --W. Irving
EXAMPLE SENTENCES:
Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head, make their point of constructive criticism and continue on in calm forbearance. Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.(QUENTIN CRISP)
Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking.'' --W. Irving
Noun
1. overabundance of words
(hypernym) verboseness, verbosity
2. the manner in which something is expressed in words; "use concise military verbiage"- G.S.Patton
(synonym) wording, diction, phrasing, phraseology, choice of words
(hypernym) formulation, expression
(hyponym) mot juste
Verbiage Definition from Social Science Dictionaries & Glossaries
Verbiage Definition from Computer & Internet Dictionaries & Glossaries
n. When the context involves a software or hardware system, this refers to documentation. This term borrows the connotations of mainstream `verbiage' to suggest that the documentation is of marginal utility and that the motives behind its production have little to do with the ostensible subject.
Verbiage Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Verbosity (also called wordiness, prolixity and garrulousness) in language refers to speech or writing which is deemed to use an excess of words. Adjectival forms are verbose, wordy, prolix and garrulous. An example are the expressions "in the vicinity of" (which can be replaced with "near") and "in order to" (which can be replaced with "to").
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