verbiage

Plural: verbiages

Noun

• Excessive or unnecessarily wordy language.
• overabundance of words
• the manner in which something is expressed in words; - G.S.Patton
  • "use concise military verbiage"
• Overabundance of words.
• The manner in which something is expressed in words; word choice.

Examples

• bureaucratic verbiage
• 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.
• Some players use too much VERBIAGE when trying to explain their complex word choices.
• We're done drafting our paper except for the final check to see whether any verbiage can be reduced.
• We're done drafting our paper except for the final verbiage on fire safety, which will be supplied by the safety engineers.

Synonyms

choice of words, diction, phraseology, phrasing, verbalism, wording, ;, circumlocution, long-windedness, prolixity, verboseness, verbosity, wordage, wordiness, wording#Noun, wordishness

Related Words

verbage, verbal, verbose