as in repetition
the use of too many words to express an idea
somewhere, lost within all that wordage, is a modestly worthwhile idea
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Recent Examples of wordage
On their website, the three yellow stripes are prominently featured on the website under the Black Lives Matter wordage, and used on their social media accounts.
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Amritpal Kaur Sandhu-Longoria, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2023
Reached by the Union-Tribune Wednesday morning, Lindsey differed with McGillis’ wordage.
—Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2023
The music, as Spiegelman notes, has to be tuned into, tracked among the acrobatics of wordage, the high-wire leaps of thought.
—Carol Muske-Dukes, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2023
The isle’s tourism website beckons travelers with picturesque wordage that can make one understand why Knowles misses his homeland.
—Gary Stoller, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2021
Messages varied in terms of wordage, but most signs offered support with unique personal twists.
—Briar Napier, The Arizona Republic, 11 July 2020
Amritpal Kaur Sandhu-Longoria, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2023
Reached by the Union-Tribune Wednesday morning, Lindsey differed with McGillis’ wordage.
—Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2023
The music, as Spiegelman notes, has to be tuned into, tracked among the acrobatics of wordage, the high-wire leaps of thought.
—Carol Muske-Dukes, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2023
The isle’s tourism website beckons travelers with picturesque wordage that can make one understand why Knowles misses his homeland.
—Gary Stoller, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2021
Messages varied in terms of wordage, but most signs offered support with unique personal twists.
—Briar Napier, The Arizona Republic, 11 July 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wordage
Noun
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From shooting mechanics and footwork to decision-making and off-ball movement, their game is shaped by repetition and efficiency rather than flair.—
Tim Genske,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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These are foods that ground us in heritage, identity and repetition.—
Renan Botelho,
Footwear News,
18 June 2025
Noun
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But Sieh is the standout, emitting a complex blend of sardonic acceptance, cynical verbosity and submerged emotional longing.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
14 May 2025
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Coogler can let his characters’ verbosity get the better of story momentum.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Just as the limitless space of web text tempts writers to indulge their logorrhea, the blinking, ever-transmuting, cartoonish interface of web browsers prevents would-be readers from paying attention to anything for longer than about 7 seconds.—
Barton Swaim,
WSJ,
19 Sep. 2022
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Nor has Musk kept his Twitter logorrhea in check in other respects.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Apr. 2022
Noun
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And there’d be no diffusion and none of that in Buffalo, for example.—
Mark Hughes,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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Like other modern video generation models, Veo 3 is built on diffusion technology—the same approach that powers image generators like Stable Diffusion and Flux.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
29 May 2025
Noun
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Signage with the same verbiage has also since appeared in lounges across Capital One’s network.—
Bailey Berg,
AFAR Media,
17 June 2025
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The letter writer’s smug verbiage may play well in one-party Maryland, but nationally, Americans seek a more collaborative, less agitational approach to political dialogue and reject arrogant, elitist insults spouted by some Democrats.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
8 June 2025
Noun
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Here, instead, she’s swayed by a dead Diana softly squeezing her hand and kindly hinting — the dead Diana is an ace at tactful circumlocution — that now is the time to show a mourning nation some emotion.—
Tom Gliatto,
Peoplemag,
16 Nov. 2023
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By condensing Balzac’s opus to a few paragraphs, Barthelme was having a laugh not just at his predecessor’s genteel circumlocution—his tendency to describe buildings and manufacturing procedures and family trees in lavish detail—but also at the conventions of novelistic mimesis itself.—
Giles Harvey,
The New York Review of Books,
23 Apr. 2020
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“Wordage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wordage. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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