Definition: (noun) The excessive and often meaningless use of words; verbosity.
Synonyms: repetition, tautology, redundancy, circumlocution, prolixity, periphrasis, pleonasm.
Usage: He is generally a smooth and fluent versifier, but his fluency is his undoing; he wraps up his material in too great a mass of verbiage.
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