perissology

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/pɛ.ɹɪˈsɒ.lə.d͡ʒi/

noun

Superfluity of words; verbosity; long-windedness.

OriginLatin perissologia ← Ancient Greek περισσός →
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Meanings

nounperissology (countable and uncountable, plural perissologies)

plural perissologies

  1. countableuncountableSuperfluity of words; verbosity; long-windedness.

    The reason assigned for saying koran and not alcoran, is truly curious. Al, say they, is the Arabic article, and signifies the; consequently, if we should say the alcoran, we should fall into a gross perissology. It is just as if we said the the book.

    1776, George Campbell, The Philosophy of Rhetoric

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
logorrheaverbosity

Origin

  1. Ancient Greek-λογία
  2. Ancient Greekπερισσός“odd, uneven”
  3. Latinperissologia
  4. Englishperissology

From Latin perissologia, from Ancient Greek περισσός (perissós, “odd, uneven”) + Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía). By surface analysis, perisso- + logy or periss- + -ology.

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Chicago

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