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long-windedness

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Synonyms and Antonyms of long-windedness

the use of too many words to express an idea

That professor's long-windedness has long been legendary on campus.

Synonyms of long-windedness

circumlocution, diffuseness, garrulity, garrulousness, prolixity, redundancy, verbiage, verboseness, verbosity, windiness, wordage, wordiness

Words Related to long-windedness

circuitousness, circularity, digressiveness

pleonasm, tautology

reiteration, repetition, repetitiousness, repetitiveness

embellishment, embroidering, exaggeration, hyperbole, overstatement

Near Antonyms of long-windedness

brevity, briefness, compactness, conciseness, concision, crispness, pithiness, succinctness, terseness

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