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Meaning of "verbosity" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF VERBOSITY

verbosity  [vɜːˈbɒsɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF VERBOSITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Verbosity 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 VERBOSITY 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 verbosity in the English dictionary

The definition of verbosity in the dictionary is the quality or state of using or containing an excess of words.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH VERBOSITY


adiposity
ˌædɪˈpɒsɪtɪ
animosity
ˌænɪˈmɒsɪtɪ
atrocity
əˈtrɒsɪtɪ
bulbosity
bʌlˈbɒsɪtɪ
curiosity
ˌkjʊərɪˈɒsɪtɪ
fabulosity
ˌfæbjʊˈlɒsɪtɪ
ferocity
fəˈrɒsɪtɪ
generosity
ˌdʒɛnəˈrɒsɪtɪ
gibbosity
ɡɪˈbɒsɪtɪ
globosity
ɡləʊˈbɒsɪtɪ
grandiosity
ˌɡrændɪˈɒsɪtɪ
luminosity
ˌluːmɪˈnɒsɪtɪ
monstrosity
mɒnˈstrɒsɪtɪ
pomposity
pɒmˈpɒsɪtɪ
porosity
pɔːˈrɒsɪtɪ
reciprocity
ˌrɛsɪˈprɒsɪtɪ
religiosity
rɪˌlɪdʒɪˈɒsɪtɪ
tuberosity
ˌtjuːbəˈrɒsɪtɪ
velocity
vɪˈlɒsɪtɪ
viscosity
vɪsˈkɒsɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE VERBOSITY

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

WORDS THAT END LIKE VERBOSITY

bellicosity
callosity
glutinosity
homozygosity
hyperviscosity
impetuosity
kinematic viscosity
microporosity
nebulosity
numerosity
scrupulosity
serosity
sinuosity
speciosity
tediosity
tortuosity
unctuosity
university
varicosity
virtuosity
zygosity

Synonyms and antonyms of verbosity in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «VERBOSITY»

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

Translation of «verbosity» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF VERBOSITY

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

Translator English - Chinese

冗长
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

verbosidad
570 millions of speakers

English

verbosity
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

शब्दाडंबर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الإسهاب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

многословие
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

verbosidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শব্দব্যবহার
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

verbosité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kelonggaran
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Ausführlichkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

冗長
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

상세
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Verbosity
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tính cách rườm rà
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வெர்போசிட்டியை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वर्बोजिटी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

lâf salatası
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

verbosità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

gadatliwość
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

багатослівність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

limbuție
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πολυλογία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

breedsprakigheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

verbosity
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

verbosity
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of verbosity

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «VERBOSITY»

The term «verbosity» is regularly used and occupies the 96.862 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of verbosity
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «VERBOSITY» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VERBOSITY»

Discover the use of verbosity in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to verbosity and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Veterans' Entitlements Law
Repatriation Commission v Mitchell [2002] FCA 1177; 71 ALD93;35 AAR 565; 18 VeRBosity 81: [7A.03] [7A.05] [7A.10] Repatriation Commission v Money [2008] FCA 118; 100ALD52:[120A.24] Repatriation Commission v Morris (1997) 79 ...
Robin Creyke, Peter H. Sutherland, 2008
2
IBM AIX Version 6.1 Differences Guide
Each call to the lvmt() function will include a verbosity level. The lvmt() function will add the entry to the lvmt log if the verbosity level included is less than or equal to the verbosity set for the system. The verbosity level has a value of 0-9.
Scott Vetter, Roman Aleksic, Ismael "Numi" Castillo, 2008
3
Mac OS X Lion In Depth
Section Control Verbosity, Text Repeated pane Punctuation pop-up menu Verbosity, Text pane While Typing Speak pop-up menu Verbosity, Text pane When Text Attributes Change pop-up menu Verbosity, Text pane When Encountering a ...
Robyn Ness, 2011
4
Mac OS X Lion Bible
Put simply, it likes to talk. The VoiceOver Utility enables you to fine-tune, almost to a granular level, how much VoiceOver talks and the kind of things it talks about. Clicking the Verbosity option in the list brings up five subpanes: Speech, Braille, ...
Galen Gruman, 2011
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OS X Mountain Lion Bible
In the Speech subpane of the Verbosity pane is the Default Speech Verbosity pop-up menu. It is set to High by default, but it also has Medium and Low settings. Clicking the disclosure triangle to the pop-up menu's right reveals exactly what ...
Galen Gruman, 2012
6
Deploying .NET Applications: Learning MSBuild and ClickOnce
Engine;verbosity=detailed;append=true; iv logfile=FreeCell-Build.log From these arguments you can see that you are using the Microsoft . Build . Engine. FileLogger class. The logger parameters part is an optional list ofkey/value pairs to be ...
Sayed Y. Hashimi, 2006
7
Mac OS X Snow Leopard Bible
The VoiceOver Utility enables you to fine-tune, almost to a granular level, how much VoiceOver talks and the kind of things it likes to talk about. Clicking the Verbosity option in the list brings up four subpanes: General, Text, Announcements, ...
Galen Gruman, Mark Hattersley, 2009
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Verbosity
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Verbosity (also called wordiness, prolixity and garrulousness) in language refers to speech or writing which is deemed to use an excess of words.
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012
9
The e-Hardware Verification Language
Message loggers include the following properties: • One or more tags • Destination • Messaging format • Verbosity • Unit hierarchy depth Tags are used to categorize messages into user-defined groups. Message destinations can be a file, ...
Sasan Iman, Sunita Joshi, 2004
10
Advances in Spatial and Temporal Databases: 10th ...
We generatea large number of query workloads based on query verbosity. Verbosity is defined as the total number of query results (alerts) produced by the query over the total number of streaming events, and can be adjusted by appropriately ...
Dimitris Papadias, Donghui Zhang, George Kollios, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VERBOSITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term verbosity is used in the context of the following news items.
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THEATER: Embracing the verbosity
... Dan Estes is guiding a younger-than-21 cast through Gilbert and Sullivan's light opera "The Pirates of Penzance," the kids are embracing the verbosity. «Kitsap Sun, Jun 15»
2
'Modi's Concern For The Minorities Is Treated Only As Empty Verbosity'
In that context is it any surprise if claim of Modi's concern for the Minorities is treated only an empty verbosity. In that context, would not Modi consider in the ... «Outlook, Jun 15»
3
A Film Writer Who Tells a Story Without Verbosity
Cinema in the hands of Sohrab Modi, K Asif, Mehboob Khan, Kamal Amrohi and Salim Javed was pure verbosity and dialogue driven bravado. Gulzar, Rajinder ... «The New Indian Express, Apr 15»
4
THEATER REVIEW | Maximum Verbosity's "Tales from Wonderland …
There's one really great piece in Maximum Verbosity's Tales from Wonderland at the new Phoenix Theater, and three others that are… not so great. One could ... «Twin Cities Daily Planet, Mar 15»
5
'Roy' Movie Review: Cutting-edge Concept Ruined By Verbosity and …
The bad points first: "Roy" is too verbose, too long at 147 minutes, and the climax not only stretched but vainly tried to be open to interpretation and confusing ... «India West, Feb 15»
6
Sheila Dikshit interview: Modi won due to 'verbosity' and now he …
Their verbosity is effective. Effective in the sense that it attracts people and I also feel that there was a sense of fatigue. People wanted a change. Nobody went ... «Firstpost, Dec 14»
7
PARKLIFE! Twitter Users Mock Russell Brand's Verbosity
Russell Brand can be verbose. Very verbose. Sometimes, Russell Brand can be so verbose in his writing that his message loses all meaning. It was something ... «Contactmusic.com, Nov 14»
8
The Best Infographic for Comparing Rapper Vocabularies, From Wu …
Aesop Rock is a star on various subreddits, but the under-the-radar rapper is the undisputed champion of verbosity. “Aesop Rock uses so many unique words in ... «Wired, Aug 14»
9
"Surrender to our verbosity!" Or at least read Simon Schama's history …
"Surrender to our verbosity!" Or at least read Simon Schama's history of the Jews. In his brilliant new book, the unconventional scholar somehow manages to be ... «Haaretz, Mar 14»
10
Briefing papers not 'verbose' enough to be revealed
Ironically Lord Kinnock himself had a reputation for verbosity, but it's not clear whether this is connected to the determination of officials to write succinct briefing ... «BBC News, Feb 14»

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