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Meaning of "verboseness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF VERBOSENESS

verboseness  [vɜːˈbəʊsnəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF VERBOSENESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Verboseness 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 VERBOSENESS 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.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH VERBOSENESS


consciousness
ˈkɒnʃəsnəs
contagiousness
kənˈteɪdʒəsnəs
dangerousness
ˈdeɪndʒərəsnəs
deliciousness
dɪˈlɪʃəsnəs
flawlessness
ˈflɔːləsnəs
globoseness
ˈɡləʊbəʊsnəs
grandioseness
ˌɡrændɪˈəʊsnəs
heedlessness
ˈhiːdləsnəs
hilariousness
hɪˈleərɪəsnəs
jealousness
ˈdʒɛləsnəs
lusciousness
ˈlʌʃəsnəs
meaninglessness
ˈmiːnɪŋləsnəs
moroseness
məˈrəʊsnəs
operoseness
ˈɒpərˌəʊsnəs
otioseness
ˈəʊtɪəʊsnəs
preciousness
ˈprɛʃəsnəs
self-consciousness
ˌsɛlfˈkɒnʃəsnəs
sparseness
ˈspɑːsnəs
squamoseness
ˈskweɪməʊsnəs
statelessness
ˈsteɪtləsnəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE VERBOSENESS

verbena
verbenaceous
verberate
verberation
verbiage
verbicide
verbid
verbification
verbified
verbifies
verbify
verbigerate
verbigeration
verbile
verbing
verbless
verbose
verbosely
verbosity
verboten

WORDS THAT END LIKE VERBOSENESS

adhesiveness
appropriateness
attentiveness
attractiveness
awareness
awesomeness
brand awareness
business
closeness
competitiveness
completeness
cost-effectiveness
cuteness
effectiveness
hoarseness
likeness
oneness
responsiveness
self-awareness
soreness
uniqueness

Synonyms and antonyms of verboseness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «verboseness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF VERBOSENESS

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

Translator English - Chinese

冗长
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

verbosidad
570 millions of speakers

English

verboseness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

verboseness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الإسهاب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

подробности сообщений
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

verboseness
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বাগবহুলতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

verbosité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Verboseness
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Redseligkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

冗長さ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

얼마나 자세히
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Verboseness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

verboseness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

verboseness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शब्दसमलेख
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Detayının
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

verboseness
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

verboseness
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

подробиці повідомлень
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

verboseness
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

περιφραστικότητας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verboseness
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

utförlighet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

verboseness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of verboseness

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «VERBOSENESS»

The term «verboseness» is used very little and occupies the 174.407 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «VERBOSENESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «verboseness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «verboseness» 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 verboseness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VERBOSENESS»

Discover the use of verboseness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to verboseness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Language Loss and the Crisis of Cognition: Between Socio- ...
Although “more educated” subjects had a wider range of verboseness levels“, they were, on average, more verbose in L1 than their “less educated” counterparts. The over-21-years-in-US group also appeared to be more verbose in L1 than ...
K. Dallas Kenny, 1996
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STACS 2002: 19th Annual Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of ...
We first introduce verboseness of functions as a useful and elegant generalisation of the verboseness of languages. In the following, fn always denotes the n-fold product f ×···×f. Definition 4. A function f is (m, n)-verbose if fn ∈ EN(m).
Helmut Alt, Afonso Ferreira, 2002
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Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science 2001: 26th ...
To get a more unified picture Beigel, Gasarch and Kinber introduced D- verboseness and strong D-verboseness [BGK95], where the type of partial information is specified by a family D of sets of bitstrings. The definitions for the time bounded ...
Jiri Sgall, Ales Pultr, Petr Kolman, 2001
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The Problem of Memory in Modernism: Gestures of Memory in ...
These two strains converge at a series of questions, questions that Duchamp carried with him across the Atlantic, and questions that suggest the problem of memory is the impetus for Crispin's voluntary exile: Could Crispin stem verboseness ...
Robert J. Reginio, 2007
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The Jurist
But the remaining obstacle to the application of mind to the correction of verboseness in conveyancing being admitted, the simple remedy seems in its removal, not in the substitution, for present complication, of a new, and, therefore, pro tanto, ...
‎1847
6
The Western Law Journal
Verboseness.—This signifies, according to Webster, the employment ofasuperabundance of words; the use of more words than are necessary. It is nearly a universal characteristic of law language,» vvheresoever and howsoever used.
Timothy Walker, 1844
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Edgar Allan Poe: Rhetoric and Style
Witness these remarks about Ann S. Stephens: Her style is what the critics usually term "powerful," but lacks real power through its verboseness and floridity . It is, in fact, generally turgid - even bombastic - involved, needlessly parenthetical, ...
Brett Zimmerman, 2005
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Merriam-Webster's Crossword Puzzle Dictionary
... word- age, wording 8 parlance, phrasing, verbiage 9 prolixity, verbosity, windiness, wordiness 10prolixness 1 1 phraseology, verboseness verbalization 4 talk 6 speech 8 speaking 9 discourse, utterance verbalize 3 air, say 4 give, talk, vent, ...
‎1995
9
Language loss and hesitation frequency: the case of ...
Chapter 6 6.1 Scattergram for column: Xi Word count 156 6.2 All subjects: Verboseness/length of stay 158 6.3 All subjects: Verboseness/age 159 6.4 All subjects: Verboseness/pause repertoire 160 6.5 All subjects: Verboseness/ lengthened ...
Keith Dallas Kenny, 1993
10
Ohio Law Journal
"RETRENCHMENT OF OBSCURATING VERBOSENESS." We presume it does not fall within the proper scope of legislative action to prohibit the use of words not generally heard or understood. We wish it did. There seems to be no available ...
‎1880

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VERBOSENESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term verboseness is used in the context of the following news items.
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Tom Richmond: How Churchill's words became weapons in …
Their verboseness is not doing themselves, or the country, any favours. As Churchill did, they should think before they speak. tom.richmond@ypn.co.uk. Live. «Yorkshire Post, Jun 15»
2
New Decemberists, Belle & Sebastian albums are a lesson in …
Paring back the early verboseness that resulted in twee titles like "The Gymnast, High Above the Ground" and "The Hazards of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles ... «Los Angeles Times, Jan 15»
3
EDITOR'S BLOG: Our Gavin Barwell campaign was a bit silly - but it …
I think she probably wished she could bail out and book another guest instead, as talked myself into a dark tunnel of verboseness. But I don't like to duck out of ... «Croydon Advertiser, Jan 15»
4
Album Review: Jessie Ware – Tough Love
It was symbiosis: Okumu's quiet-storm glitz smoothed out whatever vocal shortcoming or lyrical verboseness there was, while Ware's maximal use of what she ... «Consequence of Sound, Oct 14»
5
From Pol Pot to ISIS: US Bombing Puts "Anything That Flies on …
There is a vapid, almost sociopathic verboseness from Cameron, Obama and their "coalition of the willing" - notably Australia's aggressively weird Tony Abbott ... «Truth-Out, Oct 14»
6
Anything that flies on anything that moves
There is a vapid, almost sociopathic verboseness from Cameron, Obama and their "coalition of the willing" - notably Australia's aggressively weird Tony Abbott ... «Asia Times Online, Oct 14»
7
From Pol Pot to ISIS
There is a vapid, almost sociopathic verboseness from Cameron, Obama and their “coalition of the willing” – notably Australia's aggressively weird Tony Abbott ... «CounterPunch, Oct 14»
8
The Tao of Apple rumors
... to a report by TechCrunch that says Apple and Square had been in talks but Square walked away, Dalrymple replied with characteristic verboseness: Nope. «Macworld, Sep 14»
9
Carl Icahn to eBay: 'Ultimately truth will win out'
Even for Icahn, a billionaire investor who is known for his verboseness and who has engaged in other, very public battles against big firms, this latest lambasting ... «SiliconBeat, Mar 14»
10
Put Your Sweet Hand in Mine – review
There are torrents of words, sometimes rather too many of them – although the show does have a playful awareness of its own verboseness. There are also ... «The Guardian, Feb 14»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Verboseness [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/verboseness>. May 2024 ».
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