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Meaning of "prolixity" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PROLIXITY

prolixity  [prəʊˈlɪksɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PROLIXITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Prolixity is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PROLIXITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Verbosity

Verbosity is speech or writing which is deemed to use an excess of words. The opposite of verbosity is succinctness, which can be found in plain language, and laconism. Some teachers, including the author of The Elements of Style, warn writers not to be verbose. Similarly, some authors, including Mark Twain and Ernest Hemingway, use a succinct style and avoid verbosity. Synonyms for verbosity include wordiness, prolixity, grandiloquence, garrulousness, expatiation, and logorrhea. Corresponding adjectival forms are verbose, wordy, prolix, grandiloquent, garrulous, and logorrheic. Examples of verbosity are common in political speech, academic prose, and other genres.

Definition of prolixity in the English dictionary

The definition of prolixity in the dictionary is the quality or state of being so long as to be boring; verbosity. Other definition of prolixity is the quality or state of indulging in prolix speech or writing; long-windedness.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PROLIXITY


biconvexity
ˌbaɪkənˈvɛksɪtɪ
capacity
kəˈpæsɪtɪ
city
ˈsɪtɪ
complexity
kəmˈplɛksɪtɪ
convexity
kənˈvɛksɪtɪ
curiosity
ˌkjʊərɪˈɒsɪtɪ
density
ˈdɛnsɪtɪ
diversity
daɪˈvɜːsɪtɪ
duplexity
djuːˈplɛksɪtɪ
electricity
ɪlɛkˈtrɪsɪtɪ
ethnicity
ɛθˈnɪsɪtɪ
fixity
ˈfɪksɪtɪ
intensity
ɪnˈtɛnsɪtɪ
laxity
ˈlæksɪtɪ
perplexity
pəˈplɛksɪtɪ
siccity
ˈsɪksɪtɪ
simplicity
sɪmˈplɪsɪtɪ
unfixity
ʌnˈfɪksɪtɪ
university
ˌjuːnɪˈvɜːsɪtɪ
velocity
vɪˈlɒsɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PROLIXITY

prolicidal
prolicide
proliferate
proliferation
proliferative
proliferous
proliferously
prolific
prolificacy
prolifical
prolifically
prolification
prolificity
prolificness
proline
prolix
prolixious
prolixly
prolixness
proll

WORDS THAT END LIKE PROLIXITY

ability
activity
authority
availability
celebrity
community
facility
functionality
hospitality
humanity
humidity
identity
in the majority
majority
minority
New York City
opportunity
quality
quantity
reality

Synonyms and antonyms of prolixity in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PROLIXITY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «prolixity» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of prolixity

Translation of «prolixity» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PROLIXITY

Find out the translation of prolixity to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of prolixity from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «prolixity» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

罗唆
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

prolijidad
570 millions of speakers

English

prolixity
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

शब्दाडंबर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الاسهاب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

растянутость
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

prolixidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বাগ্বাহুল্য
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

prolixité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Prolixity
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Weitschweifigkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

冗長
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

prolixity
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Prolixity
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự dông dài
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

prolixity
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रोगिकता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

söz uzunluğu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

prolissità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

przewlekłość
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

розтягнутість
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

plictiseală
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

απεραντολογία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

uitvoerig
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

prolixity
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

prolixity
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of prolixity

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PROLIXITY»

The term «prolixity» is normally little used and occupies the 123.143 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PROLIXITY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «prolixity» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «prolixity» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about prolixity

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROLIXITY»

Discover the use of prolixity in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to prolixity and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Sound Patterns in Interaction: Cross-linguistic Studies from ...
Prolixity as adaptation Prosody and turn-taking in German conversation with a fluent aphasic Peter Auer and Barbara Ronfeldt A characteristic feature of so- called fluent aphasics' speech is their prolixity. In traditional approaches to aphasia, ...
Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen, Cecilia E. Ford, 2004
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Prolixity: Monologue, Oral Argument, Purple Prose, ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken, 2010
3
Brevity
Introduction of the issue The present chapter is concerned with prolixity—the opposite of brevity. 'Prolixity' is taken to be a property either of utterances or of speakers; speakers are prolix when their utterances are, and utterances are prolix ...
Laurence Goldstein, 2013
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
In the ordinary novel we have plenty of prolixity, but it elaborates itself in the speeches which pass for conversation as it should be ; prolixity, which loses none of its terrors in the presentment ; so difficult is it for the pen to stop its flow, as to ...
‎1871
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Blackwood's Magazine
In the ordinary novel we have plenty of prolixity, but it elaborates itself in the speeches which pass for conversation as it should be; prolixity, which loses none of its terrors in the presentment; so difficult is it for the pen to stop its flow, as to retain ...
‎1871
6
A Basilisk's Prolixity
A Basilisks Prolixity is a compilation of original poetry. It contains sixty select works ranging from politics, to dedications, to full-blown rants.
Jessica L. Kilgore, 2009
7
A Treatise on the Law of Evidence in the Courts of Equity
(b) Fourthly; With respect to needless prolixity and superfluity, IV. Needless Lord Eldon said, in Slack v. Evans, (c) " If I decide with the guperf'uity*.'1'1 Master, I must decide that this prolixity is not impertinent, which I should be very reluctant to ...
Richard Newcombe Gresley, Christopher Alderson Calvert, 1847
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Reserved Judgments of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, ...
To this answer the plaintiff has taken thirteen exceptions on the ground of prolixity and impertinence. They were argued before me on Saturday last, Mr.Stawell supporting the exceptions and Mr. Barry the answer. The greater part of the ...
New South Wales. Supreme Court. Port Phillip (District), Sir William A'Beckett, Robert William Shadforth, 1850
9
Judgments of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, for the ...
To this answer the plaintiff has taken thirteen exceptions on the ground of prolixity and impertiuence. They were argued before me on Saturday last, Mr.Stawell supporting the exceptions and Mr. Barry the answer. The greater part of the ...
New South Wales. Supreme Court. Port Phillip (District), Sir William A'Beckett, Robert William Shadforth, 1847
10
An analytical digest of all the reported cases, statutes, ...
Reference for impertinence, prolixity and scandal. Sec also Pr. Bil, 13. & PI. VIII. 2 . Objections for impertinence, prolixity, or scandal, to be taken by notice concisely , describing same. General Order, 29th Nov. 1834. No. 61. Smith's Rules, 232.
Matthew O'Donnell, Sir Francis Brady, Ireland. Parliament. House of Lords, 1840

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROLIXITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term prolixity is used in the context of the following news items.
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Buhari's Frugality And Owambe Politicians
Without slips of prolixity, this implies that Buhari and Osinbajo will earn half of what former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and former Vice ... «Nigerian Observer, Jul 15»
2
Scant respect!
All of this prolixity just requires one direct question; did the “good governance and social justice” of her Government cause her to be shunned of ... «Barbados Today, Jul 15»
3
Yes (but), Prime Minister: Sir Humphrey responds to a missive from …
... (a role still regretfully quite undefined, Prime Minister), and other senior personnel, to be rather briefer and to the point. No prolixity, please! «The Independent, Jul 15»
4
Be careful what you ask for
“Particularity and prolixity are not synonymous.” Id.at 9. This is good stuff. The kind we can see slipping into our own briefs. Even better, the ... «Lexology, Jul 15»
5
Uduaghan, Delta And The Economics Of Cannibalism
Without slips of prolixity, it is unambiguously clear from Governor Okowa's submissions that Delta State and it's finances are straddling between ... «Nigerian Observer, Jul 15»
6
ArtsBeat | 'True Detective' Recap: Big Blasts and Diminished Men
His weird mishmash of tough-talk and prolixity would be more interesting if it was an intentional character trait — a glimpse into an insecure ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
7
DIY, Not 'Me, Me, Me'
Jupitus self-deprecatingly suggested that he was only there as a buffer to curtail Clarke's prolixity, but having to follow the sheer intensity of ... «Huffington Post UK, Jun 15»
8
Thoughts on Zivotofsky, Part Four: Justice Thomas as constitutional …
The [Thomas] concurrence's stingy interpretation of the enumerated powers forgets that the Constitution does not “partake of the prolixity of a ... «Just Security, Jun 15»
9
Why not get an app to do your reading for you?
If you distrust prolixity you will be spared it. If you prefer naturalism to postmodern whimsy, then no mad plots either. Having problems with ... «Irish Times, Jun 15»
10
Why Can't Streaming Services Get Classical Music Right?
What Brian lacks in name recognition, he makes up in prolixity: He wrote more than 200 pieces in all, including more than 30 symphonies. «Delmarva Public Radio, Jun 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Prolixity [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/prolixity>. Apr 2024 ».
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