verbiage

plural verbiages

1. countableuncountableOverabundance of words.

   bureaucratic verbiage

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   We're done drafting our paper except for the final check to see whether any verbiage can be reduced.

   A very garrulous person, he approached the counter in a fog of verbiage.

   1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 39

   Synonyms: wordiness, verbosity, verboseness, long-windedness, prolixity, circumlocution, wordage, wordishness

2. countableuncountableThe manner in which something is expressed in words; word choice.

   Near-synonyms: phrasing; terminology; phraseology

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   In each article of this series, there is a paragraph on nutrition; the verbiage for it was developed by consensus among the section editors, and therefore no elective rewording should be done (by others) in any such paragraph.

   We're done drafting our paper except for the final verbiage on fire safety, which will be supplied by the safety engineers.

   The comparison of coincidences in the verbiage of different languages, and affinity of etymological formation, are interesting subjects of philological investigation.

   1846, Margaret Thornley, The True End of Education and the Means Adapted to It

   Use concise military verbiage.

   1947, George S. Patton, War as I Knew It

   Synonyms: wording, diction, wordage, phrasing, terminology, phraseology