verboseness
(vəˈbəʊsnɪs)
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The character or quality of being verbose; verbosity.
| 1727 Bailey (vol. II), Verbosness, the using many Words, Fulness of Words, Prolixity in Discourse. 1748 Richardson Clarissa (1811) III. 73, I don't often gratify him.. with giving him the praise for his verboseness. a 1797 H. Walpole George II (1847) II. xi. 378 When his verboseness did not persuade, he quickened it with impertinence. 1843 Fraser's Mag. XXVIII. 73 He has been mesmerised into a mystical verboseness without positive thought. |