#verboseness__verbosenes  an expressive style that uses excessive words
  exclusion:  terseness
  supertype:  expressive_style__style  a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period; "all the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper"
  subtype:  verbiage  overabundance of words
  subtype:  prolixity__prolixness__long-windedness__wordiness__wordines  boring verboseness
     subtype:  turgidity__turgidness__flatulence  pompously embellished language
  subtype:  circumlocution__periphrasis__periphrasi  a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things
  subtype:  repetitiveness__repetitiousness__repetitiousnes  verboseness resulting from excessive repetitions
     subtype:  redundancy.repetitiveness  repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission
     subtype:  tautology  useless repetition; "to say that something is `adequate enough' is a tautology"
  subtype:  pleonasm  using more words than necessary; "a tiny little child"

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