Verbiage
10 definitions retrieved  Verbiage \Ver"bi*age\ (?; 48), n. [F. verbiage, from OF. verbe a word. See Verb.] The use of many words without necessity, or with little sense; a superabundance of words; verbosity; wordiness. [1913 Webster] Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking. --W. Irving. [1913 Webster] This barren verbiage current among men. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]  verbiage n 1: overabundance of words [syn: verbiage, verbalism] 2: the manner in which something is expressed in words; "use concise military verbiage"- G.S.Patton [syn: wording, diction, phrasing, phraseology, choice of words, verbiage]  verbiage When the context involves a software or hardware system, this refers to documentation. This term borrows the connotations of mainstream "verbiage" to suggest that the documentation is of marginal utility and that the motives behind its production have little to do with the ostensible subject. [Jargon File]  verbiage n. When the context involves a software or hardware system, this refers to documentation. This term borrows the connotations of mainstream `verbiage' to suggest that the documentation is of marginal utility and that the motives behind its production have little to do with the ostensible subject.  verbiage [vəːbiidʒ] Wortschwall  verbiage bôbeszédûség locsogás szószaporítás szószátyárkodás szóáradat üresfecsegés  verbiage Geschwätz n verbiage Geschwätzigkeit f verbiage Wortschwall m; Worterguss m  55 Moby Thesaurus words for "verbiage": choice of words, circumambages, circumbendibus, circumlocution, cloud of words, composition, dialect, diction, expansiveness, expression, floridity, floridness, flow of words, flux of words, formulation, grammar, idiom, language, lexicon, lexis, locution, logorrhea, long-windedness, longiloquence, nimiety, parlance, periphrase, periphrasis, phrase, phraseology, phrasing, pleonasm, prolixity, redundancy, repetition, rhetoric, roundabout, speech, stock of words, talk, talkativeness, tautology, thesaurus, usage, use of words, usus loquendi, verbalism, verbality, verbosity, vocabulary, wordage, wordhoard, wordiness, wording, words Verbiage related |
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