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verbalism
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of VERBALISM
1
an act, process, or means of putting something into words <the meticulous verbalism of the senator's prepared statement suggests that she knew that it would spark controversy>
2
the use of too many words to express an idea <prose that is lean, uncluttered, and utterly devoid of any trace of verbalism>
Synonyms circumlocution, diffuseness, diffusion, garrulity, garrulousness, logorrhea, long-windedness, periphrasis, prolixity, redundancy, verbalism, verboseness, verbosity, windiness, wordage, wordiness
Related Words circuitousness, circularity, digressiveness; pleonasm, tautology; reiteration, repetition, repetitiousness, repetitiveness; embellishment, embroidering, exaggeration, hyperbole, overstatement
Near Antonyms brevity, briefness, compactness, conciseness, concision, crispness, pithiness, succinctness, terseness
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