verbosity

noun
UK: /vɜːˈbɒsɪti/
US: /vərˈbɑːsɪti/

  1. The quality or state of using more words than necessary; wordiness.

    1. The report suffered from excessive verbosity.
    2. The speaker's verbosity made it hard to follow their main argument, losing many listeners.

  2. The characteristic of being verbose or excessively talkative.

    1. His verbosity annoyed everyone at the meeting.
    2. The professor's verbosity during lectures often meant covering less material than planned.

  3. In computing, the level of detail included in output or logging; more detail equals greater verbosity.

    1. Increase verbosity to see more debug messages.
    2. Setting the verbosity level higher in the software configuration generated a very long output log.

Synonyms

loquacity garrulity verbosity

Frequently Asked Questions

The word "verbosity" in English means: The quality or state of using more words than necessary; wordiness., The characteristic of being verbose or excessively talkative., In computing, the level of detail included in output or logging; more detail equals greater verbosity..

The phonetic transcription of "verbosity" is /vɜːˈbɒsɪti/ in British English and /vərˈbɑːsɪti/ in American English. Click the 🔊 button to hear both pronunciations.

Synonyms for "verbosity": loquacity, garrulity, verbosity.

Example usage of "verbosity": "The report suffered from excessive verbosity.". More examples on the page.