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21Pleonasm — is the use of more words (or even word parts) than necessary to express an idea clearly. A closely related concept is rhetorical tautology, in which essentially the same thing is said more than once in different words (e.g black darkness , cold… …
22verbiage — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. repetition, verbosity, prolixity, loquacity; see wordiness . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. wordiness, long windedness, prolixity, verbosity, logorrhea, repetition, redundancy, loquacity, tautology. ANT.: concision,… …
23verbosity — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. circumlocution, loquacity, garrulity, prolixity; see wordiness . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. wordiness, long windedness, prolixity, tautology, loquaciousness. Shooting without aiming. William Benham. Superfluous breath …
24Redundancy (language) — In the study of language, redundancy is considered a vital feature of language. It shields a message from possible flaws in transmission (unclarity, ambiguity, noise). In this way, it increases the odds of predictability of a message s meaning.… …
25Cortes's Account of the City of Mexico — ▪ Primary Source FROM HIS SECOND LETTER TO THE EMPEROR CHARLES V. In order, most potent Sire, to convey to your Majesty a just conception of the great extent of this noble city of Temixtitan, and of the many rare and wonderful objects …
26English words first attested in Chaucer — Contents 1 Etymology 2 List 2.1 Canterbury Tales General Prologue …
27rhetoric — Synonyms and related words: Barnumism, affectation, articulateness, bedizenment, big talk, bluster, bombast, choice of words, command of language, command of words, composition, convolution, debating, declamation, demagogism, dialect, diction,… …
28diffuseness — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Verbosity Nouns diffuseness, expatiation, enlargement, expansion, development, dilation, dilating; verbosity, loquacity; peroration, repetition; pleonasm, exuberance, redundance, thrice told tale;… …
29garrulity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. loquacity, wordiness, prolixity, verbosity. Ant., taciturnity. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. loquacity, wordiness, verbosity, glibness, grandiloquence, talkativeness, chattiness, garrulousness, volubility,… …
30loquacity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Talkativeness Nouns 1. loquacity, loquaciousness, talkativeness, volubility, garrulity, multiloquence, flow of words, gift of gab, eloquence, fluency. Slang, flannel mouth. See speech. 2. diffuseness,… …
