[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being wordy; excess or multiplicity of words; verbosity.
1724. Plain Dealer, No. 70, 112. Tacitus, of all Historians, was least guilty of using Wordiness, or Circumlocution, in his Relations.
1727. Bailey (vol. II.), Wordiness,… Talkativeness, &c.
1809. W. Irving, Knickerb., VII. xiii. 112. The empty wordiness of his factious subjects—their intemperate harangues.
1862. J. Angus, Handbk. Engl. Tongue, 373. A copious phraseology is one cure of wordiness, and is essential to effective writing.
